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Robert Norrell’s Eden Rise offers real picture of 1960s civil rights struggle

Praise for civil rights scholar Robert Norrell’s first novel Eden Rise includes reviews from StarNews, the Montgomery Advertiser, the Tuscaloosa News, and the Island Packet, whose Don McKinney notes that Norrell “has been compared with both Harper Lee and John Grisham, which is pretty impressive company, and he has a keen eye for the details of the places he writes about” …

February 14, 2013 No Comments

Alabama Lawyer magazine on Dan Meador’s UAB Law School Legacy

“Alabama is a better state and the University of Alabama Law School is an infinitely better place due to [Daniel Meador’s] stellar four years of splendid service,” a recent profile in the Alabama Lawyer‘s November 2012 issue concludes. In reviewing Meador’s book The Transformative Years of the University of Alabama Law School: 1966-1970, University of Alabama alumnus Robert Potts’s examines Meador’s tenure at the law school and how Meador contributed to the school’s betterment …

January 11, 2013 No Comments

Atlanta Journal-Constitution names Fall Line to Best of South 2012 list

Joe Samuel Starnes’s new novel Fall Line rang in the new year with an honor from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The newspaper included Fall Line among their “best books of the South” list for 2012. “[In Fall Line], Starnes rips the lid off dirty Georgia politics, skewers the haves and honors the have-nothings who pushed back when a manmade lake came along to drown their communities for electricity and big profits,” writes Gina Webb for the Journal-Constitution. “Nothing says Southern like a bunch of corrupt good ol’ boys sitting around a table gambling away the lives of poor people.”

January 4, 2013 No Comments

Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books praises Greenhorn

Anna Olswanger’s new children’s book Greenhorn, about a young Holocaust survivor who transforms a Brooklyn yeshiva, is now in stores. Olswanger is the award-winning author of Shlemiel Crooks, and already her newest book, a touching volume featuring full-color illustrations by Miriam Nerlove, has earned praise from Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and ForeWord Reviews. This just in: a review from the Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books. which calls Greenhorn “compelling,” “touching,” and “humane” …

December 27, 2012 No Comments

Publishers Weekly hosts Anna Olswanger on hope and Holocaust literature

Publishers Weekly’s “Soapbox” column featured an essay in late September by Anna Olswanger, author of Greenhorn and the award-winning Shlemiel Crooks, both published by NewSouth’s Junebug Books. In “A Story of Hope,” Olswanger talks about how she was compelled to turn a true story of tragedy into Greenhorn, a book about hope; she also discusses her surprise at a publisher willing to release a children’s book about the Holocaust when so many others would turn it down …

December 19, 2012 No Comments

Poet David Rigsbee awarded 2013 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has awarded David Rigsbee a 2013 Creative Writing Fellowship, given to “outstanding poets.” Rigsbee is one of only forty poets to receive the grant, out of over 1,000 who applied. Rigsbee’s most recent collection of verse, The Red Tower: New & Selected Poems, was published by NewSouth Books in 2010 …

November 30, 2012 No Comments

Ellen Weiss book on Robert R. Taylor wins Award of Excellence from Society of Architectural Historians

The Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) gave Dr. Ellen Weiss their 2012 Award of Excellence for her biography of the first academically-trained African American architect, Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee: An African American Architect Designs for Booker T. Washington, during their 2012 Annual Meeting in Athens, Georgia. Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee is not just the first biography and a detailed portrait of this important man; it’s also a gorgeous volume that includes over 100 photographs of Taylor’s buildings on the Tuskegee campus and elsewhere, finely annotated by Dr. Weiss …

November 26, 2012 No Comments

Andrew Glaze named eleventh Alabama Poet Laureate

Poet and NewSouth Books author Andrew Glaze received the commission for Poet Laureate for the State of Alabama this past week. Glaze, 92, has published thirteen books of poetry including Remembering Thunder (NewSouth Books, 2002), and his work has also appeared in major literary journals and magazines. Glaze was born in Nashville and grew up in Birmingham, leaving and then returning to the city after serving in the Air Force in World War II. His first major book of poetry, Damned Ugly Children, was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize. He will be Alabama’s eleventh poet laureate …

November 7, 2012 No Comments

Frye Gaillard on Sena Jeter Naslund and Geraldine Brooks, as mentioned on Diane Rehm Show

NPR’s The Diane Rehm Show recently featured a “Reader’s Review” segment, in which a panel discussed Geraldine Brooks’s 2001 novel Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague. Included on that panel with Ms. Rehm was Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab’s Wife, who aside from discussing Ms. Brooks’s novel has another connection to the author — both women’s books were mentioned in Frye Gaillard’s recent memoir The Books That Mattered: A Reader’s Memoir, published by NewSouth Books …

November 2, 2012 No Comments

MyRecipes calls Tasia’s Table great cookbook for holiday giving

The MyRecipes.com “You’ve Got to Taste This!” column spotlighted Tasia’s Table: Cooking with the Artisan Cheesemaker at Belle Chevre this past week, and has even included it on their list of cookbooks for holiday giving. Tasia’s Table is the dynamic new cookbook from Tasia Malakasis, who matches her Southern and Greek heritages with her dedication that cooking should be fun and easy, to create recipes that’ll set every mouth watering …

November 1, 2012 No Comments

Author: Brian Seidman