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Robert Baldwin to Address Annual Witness to Innocence Convention

Robert Baldwin, author of Life and Death Matters: Seeking the Truth About Capital Punishment, will speak at the closing ceremony of the Witness to Innocence annual convention in Birmingham, Alabama on November 15. Dr. Baldwin’s talk, entitled “How I Changed, How You Can Change Others,” describes his personal spiritual journey — from a belief in the legitimacy and social value of execution to his present-day position that the practice is morally and socially wrong …

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November 13, 2009 No Comments

Teddy’s Child Lauded by Alabama Press

Teddy’s Child: Growing Up in the Anxious Southern Gentry between the Great Wars, by Dr. Virginia Hamilton, has received sterling reviews from First Draft magazine, the Mobile Press-Register, and the Birmingham News. Dr. Hamilton’s book explores the deep roots of family and place in her coming-of-age memoir set in Birmingham, Alabama, in the period between World Wars I and II. She considers the shadows of both the genteel poverty her family fell into during the Great Depression, and of the inescapable family ailment of mental depression and what were then called nervous disorders …

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November 6, 2009 No Comments

Billy Moore to Sign Copies of New Western

Copies might be scarce. But NewSouth would be remiss not to mention that Billy Moore, author of Cracker’s Mule and Little Brother Real Snake, has a UK publisher for his new western The Staked Plains. Billy Moore will be signing copies of The Staked Plains on Saturday, November 7 at the Chautauqua building in Defuniak Springs, Florida during the Peddler’s Alley event. He will also sign copies of his young adult novels Cracker’s Mule and Little Brother Real Snake …

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November 4, 2009 No Comments

Frye Gaillard on Tour with Southern Girl’s Kathryn Scheldt

Author Frye Gaillard continues to develop new outlets for his creativity. Frye — the author of Watermelon Wine: The Spirit of Country Music, considered one of the best books ever published on the history of country music — is one of the South’s hardest-working journalists, with a wide-ranging interest in culture and history. He has published many books, and is ever investigating new territory. Recently, he shows he has a related talent, that of song-writing. And he’s doing a tour now in connection with Southern Girl, a new CD on which he and country recording artist Kathryn Scheldt have collaborated …

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November 3, 2009 No Comments

Southern Political Report Endorses The South’s New Racial Politics for Course Adoption

Glen Browder’s new book The South’s New Racial Politics received thoughtful praise in a highly positive review from the Southern Political Report. John Tures, Associate Professor of Political Science at LaGrange College, says he will be recommending the book to fellow professors and political science majors in his American Government class, and even students in his interdisciplinary American Experience course, “showing how Browder’s book is written for a wide audience” …

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September 30, 2009 No Comments

Author Foster Dickson Speaks at Ottawa International Writers Festival

Poet and biographer Foster Dickson, author of I Just Make People Up: Ramblings with Clark Walker (NewSouth Books 2008) and The Life and Poetry of John Beecher (1904-1980) (Edwin Mellen Press 2009) will give a lecture entitled “Southern Exposure” at the Ottawa International Writers Festival on October at 4:00 pm. Dickson will discuss his complete body of work as Southern studies of oft-neglected people …

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September 29, 2009 No Comments

Tom Sawyer Ships In, Alabama Big Read Bus Heads Out

Alabama’s first-ever statewide Big Read project moves into high gear next week as Big Read regional coordinators and NewSouth Books arrange for delivery of close to 12,000 copies of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer to librarians across the state. The Big Read Bus will travel the state on September 10 and 11 distributing copies of a unique edition of the Mark Twain classic created especially for Alabama readers by NewSouth Books. On its two-day mission, the bus will stop at the main branches of library systems in 14 cities; local librarians will then send copies to area branches. A big banner announces the vehicle’s purpose, and plans are being made from library to library to celebrate its arrival …

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September 3, 2009 No Comments

2010 Tom Sawer Big Read Speaker Recommendations from NewSouth

“I wanted to be just like Tom Sawyer as kid, but years later I realized it was Mr. Twain whom I truly wished to emulate.” So says award-winning author Ted Dunagan, whose debut novel A Yellow Watermelon, NewSouth Books published last year. Mr. Dunagan is one of two speakers, along with Twain scholar Dr. Alan Gribbben, that NewSouth Books, publisher of the Alabama Big Read edition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, will be sending to talk to Big Read program participants about Twain and his literary legacy and influence …

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September 1, 2009 No Comments