NewSouth announces three intriguing new titles for the Spring 2007 season: Gerald Duff’s hilarious short story collection Fire Ants; Coach Bill Elder’s memoir All Guts, No Glory; and The Judge, a biography of Judge Frank Johnson, Jr. …
Congratulations to NewSouth author Steve Suitts, who has won the Georgia Author of the Year award for Biography, for his book Hugo Black of Alabama …
The Koret International Jewish Book Awards today named Shlemiel Crooks as one of three finalists in the BabagaNewz Children’s Literature category. Shlemiel Crooks, a whimsical Yiddish-inflected retelling of the Passover story, set in 1919 St. Louis, also received the Association of Jewish Libraries 2006 Sydney Taylor Honor Award earlier this year …
An interview with Charles Rose, author of the NewSouth book In the Midst of Life, is now available for download …
Anna Olswanger, NewSouth author of Shlemiel Crooks is coordinating the Eighth Annual Jewish Children’s Book Writers’ Conference on Sunday, November 19 in New York …
NewSouth author Kathryn Tucker Windham will appear today at the LaFayette Pilot Public Library in LaFayette, Alabama at noon CST, and at the Langdale Auditorium in Valley, Alabama at 7 pm EST. Ms. Windham will speak, followed by a booksigning; both events are free to the public …
If you can’t wait to read John Egerton’s Ali Dubyiah and the Forty Thieves, good news! Ali Dubyiah is now available in eBook format. Now you can thrill to the literary hijinks of George W. Fratbush on your own computer screen, as he hunts Osama bin Hiden and faces the wrath of Katrina …
The Nashville Scene featured John Egerton’s hilarious and provocative new book Ali Dubyiah and the Forty Thieves on their cover today, calling the political parody both “endless fun” and “unforgiving” …
In its coverage of the one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, New Orlean’s Times Picayune newspaper has offered special mention of New Orleans writer Tony Dunbar’s Hurricane Katrina novel Tubby Meets Katrina. In Susan Larson’s article “Wordstorm,” she mentions Tubby Meets Katrina as the first Hurricane Katrina novel; in her article “Read ‘Em and Weep: Looking at the Katrina books, my way,” Larson goes on to recall …
John Egerton, contributor to NewSouth’s Where We Stand and author of the forthcoming Ali Dubyiah and the Forty Thieves, will appear at the Atlanta Journal Constitution Decatur Book Festival this weekend, September 2 and 3. Egerton will speak on the panel “Tricksters of the New South” with Roy Blount, Jr. and George Singleton, as well as “Writing Around the Edges of Southern Foodways” with John T. Edge and Marcie Cohen Ferris …