Beat the Heat with NewSouth's Summer Titles
Summer’s here, and the whole country’s certainly feeling the heat! So what’s the deal with USA Today saying there’s no hot beach books this summer? Didn’t they read the Charlotte Observer review of Mark Ethridge’s Grievances, which called the mystery novel “a must for your beach bag”? And Windows a Bookshop in Louisiana certainly has […]
Why Beulah Shot Her Pistol Author Clayton Sullivan Opens Website
Clayton Sullivan, author of Why Beulah Shot Her Pistol Inside the Baptist Church, has launched a new website that details both Beulah and Sullivan’s many other incisive, scholarly religious books. Visit Clayton Sullivan and learn more about his books at www.claytonsullivan.com. Why Beulah Shot Her Pistol tells the story of Beulah Buchanan, raised in the […]
Rev. Graetz's White Preacher's Message Now Available; Signing on July 27
NewSouth Books is pleased to announce the publication and release of Reverend Robert Graetz’s A White Preacher’s Message on Race and Reconciliation. A White Preacher’s Message details Rev. Graetz’s life as the young white pastor of a black Lutheran Church in Montgomery, where he and his wife were among the few whites who supported the […]
Listen to Hugo Black of Alabama Audio Review
Don Noble of Alabama Public Radio has published an audio review of NewSouth’s Hugo Black of Alabama: How His Roots and Early Career Shaped the Great Champion of the Constitution, by Steve Suitts. Earlier this year, Suitts lectures on “Hugo Black’s Constitution” at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Listen to Don Noble’s review […]
Voices of Civil Rights Documentary to be Screened; Voting Rights Act Supported for Renewal
The Fine Arts Theatre in Los Angeles will screen Voices of Civil Rights, a documentary by Jeffrey Tuchman, on July 15 at 7:00 PM; tickets are $7.00. The film follows a group of journalists on a 70-day bus ride through country, interviewing people about the civil rights movement. The stories that the journalists collected are […]
Grievances Called Intriguing Novel; Send a Message to Author Mark Ethridge
The Akron Beacon Journal in Akron, Ohio has praised Grievances as an “intriguing novel.” They continue: Ethridge precisely conveys the grunt side of newspaper work — the crunching boredom of sifting through piles of public records as the deadline clock ticks away. He shows various versions of the story as the two reporters polish it, […]
Civil Rights Attorney Fred Gray Awarded NAACP's Highest Honor
On July 17, the NAACP will honor civil rights attorney Fred Gray, NewSouth author of Bus Ride for Justice, with the William Robert Ming Advocacy Award for his long-standing civil rights contributions. Gray, born in Montgomery, Alabama, grew up to become one of only two black lawyers in Montgomery in the 1950s. When his friend […]
New York Times on Katrina's “Hell and High Water”
The New York Times Book Review published a feature on Sunday called “Hell and High Water,” looking at two non-fiction accounts of the Hurricane Katrina devistation. The first, The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Co by historian Douglas Brinkley, showcases interviews with New Orleans and Southern residents who weathered the […]
Anticipation Grows for Rev. Graetz's White Preacher's Message
If you’re waiting eagerly for NewSouth’s release of Reverend Robert Graetz’s civil rights memoir A White Preacher’s Message on Race and Reconciliation, don’t forget that Rev. Graetz also writes a regular guest column in the Montgomery Advertiser. To tide you over until White Preacher’s Message is released, follow this link to Rev. Graetz’s most recent […]
Querying Poets Should Start Small
Every so often I get calls from unpublished poets wanting to query a poetry collection. My sense is that as the book market shrinks overall, poetry releases are fewer and fewer, and those collections being published are largely collections of established poets’ work (see American Wake and At the Forest Edge from NewSouth). I’m surprised […]