The 16th Annual Poets House Showcase, featuring this year’s new poetry books, also displayed a number of titles from NewSouth Books. More than 2,000 titles were on display from April 12-19 at the historic Jefferson Market Library …
Kenneth Mullinax of the Montgomery Advertiser recently interviewed John Patterson, whose authorized biography Nobody But the People: The Life and Times of Alabama’s Youngest Governor, by Warren Trest, is now available from NewSouth Books …
Book editor Susan Larson has reviewed American Crisis, Southern Solutions, the collection of Southern political essays edited by NewSouth author Anthony Dunbar. Larson favorably compares American Crisis and it’s predecessor Where We Stand: Voices of Southern Dissent to the Agrarian anthology of the 1930s “I’ll Take My Stand.†She praises the essayists and Dunbar for creating a collection that “shows the ways in which the South can offer solutions to national dilemmas†…
NewSouth Books author Rheta Grimsley Johnson has been profiled in the Montgomery Advertiser for her new book Poor Man’s Provence. In the article by Robyn Litchfield, Johnson describes her love for Cajun country, particularly Henderson, Louisiana, the inspiration for the essays in her book. She says, “I’m uneasy about pretending to understand a culture that is not my own. I’ll qualify it by saying that I’m not an authority … This is just a love story, my love affair with this place, a work-a-day town where they still make their living in the swamp” …
Jackie Matte, author of They Say the Wind Is Red, spoke on November 13, 2007 to a group of students at the John Hopkins Center for American Indian Health in recognition of Native American History Month. Students enjoyed a lecture on Jackie’s experiences, and afterward she signed copies of her book …
Ted Dunagan, author of A Yellow Watermelon, was interviewed recently by Joan Hetzler of Chattanooga, Tennessee’s WAWL radio program The Writers Show, a lively half hour program that airs once a month and entertains listeners through interviews, discussions, readings, drama and stories from writers …
Need a Jewish book author for your upcoming event? Check out Host-a-Jewish-Book-Author.com, a new independent list site created by Anna Olswanger, author of Shlemiel Crooks …
The daily newspaper BostonNOW! has just reviewed Keith Donnelly’s new mystery novel Three Deuces Down. Reviewer Edward Clarkin says there are “big surprises†in what he calls a “good detective thriller†…
A Yellow Watermelon by Junebug Books author Ted Dunagan will be reviewed in the forthcoming December 1 edition of Kirkus Reviews. Kirkus praises Dunagan’s skillful storytelling and calls the book “a memorable, generous-hearted tale†…
Frank Sikora, author of The Judge: The Life and Opinions of Alabama’s Frank M. Johnson, Jr. was interviewed recently by Greg Bass of Birmingham, Alabama’s WBHM public radio program Tapestry …