Memphis Magazine has named John Pritchard’s Junior Ray to their list of thirty-two “finest literary works with a Memphis flavor,” in honor of their thirty-second year of publication. Quipped Pritchard, “Junior Ray made the cut. It’s on the list with Faulkner and Foote, John Grisham and Jay MacInerny, and, of course, also with others less luminous . . . and, to be sure, less numinous” …
NewSouth author John Pritchard’s work on The Yazoo Blues was interrupted by news of the federal closing of the Platinum Plus club that serves as the inspiration for the Magic Pussy Cabaret & Club in The Yazoo Blues …
NewSouth authors Charlotte Miller and Billie Jean Young have both contributed to a new anthology, An Alabama Christmas, from Cliff Road Books.
“The Shoals industry has been in decline over the last two decades and could eventually wither away completely as a result of technological advances and the ever-changing way people produce and get their music,” notes Music Fell on Alabama author C. S. Fuqua. “Designation as a national heritage area and the money provided for preservation and promotion could at least entice more tourists to the area to experience and learn more about the rich musical heritage and contributions that Alabama has made and continues to make even in times when the recording industry itself is going through major changes.”
NewSouth Books is pleased to offer extended search capabilities for our books, using new Google Book Search tools. Readers can now search the full text of NewSouth Books, view pages and photographs from the books online, and even see reviews and references to NewSouth Books from across the web …
Celebrate the return of Michelle Edwards’ Chicken Man with a new Book of Life audio interview!
Les Dunbar, contributor to Where We Stand (NewSouth Books 2004) and the forthcoming sequel, American Problems, Southern Solutions: Where We Stand II (February 2008), sends this message occasioned by a recent trip …
NewSouth author Anna Olswanger announces the Ninth Annual Jewish Children’s Book Writers’ Conference, held at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan on Sunday, November 18, 2007, from 9:00 am to 5:00 p.m. The conference is co-sponsored by the 92nd Street Y Buttenwieser Library and the Jewish Book Council …
Writer and journalist Julia Oliver has reviewed Mark Ethridge’s novel Grievances for the new online book review section of First Draft magazine, published by the Alabama Writers’ Forum …
The following from Mark Ethridge, author of Grievances: Doug Marlette, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and novelist (The Bridge, Magic Time) died this week in a