Nashville Scene Calls Ali Dubyiah Author The Literary Patriot
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” …
Tubby Meets Katrina in the News as New Orleans Commemorates Hurricane Katrina
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 at AJC Decatur Book Festival This Weekend
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 …
Coasters Author Gerald Duff Offers New Fiction, Novel
As Gerald Duff, NewSouth author of Coasters, prepares for the release of his new novel, Fire Ants, we’re pleased to note a number of his short stories that have been accepted to leading national literary magazines. Additionally, as Duff reports, his work has recently been discussed in three scholarly studies …
Paul Gaston's Where We Stand Essay in Archipelago Magazine
As the November political season gets closer, now’s a perfect time to sample a bit of NewSouth’s renowned book of essays from twelve leading Southern historians, activists, civil rights attorneys, law professors, and theologians, Where We Stand, discussing militarism, religion, the environment, voting rights, the Patriot Act, the economy, prisons and crime, and more. Courtesy of the online journal Archipelago, Paul M. Gaston’s Where We Stand essay is now online …
Koning Cool: Koning Interview on Blogcritics.org
As the newest reprint of Hans Koning’s tale of love in the nuclear age, The Kleber Flight continues to gain attention, more insight into Koning’s work can be found in the interview he conducted with Blogcritics.org‘s Sadi Ranson-Polizzotti …
Junior Ray Author John Pritchard Opens Amazon Blog
NewSouth author John Pritchard has launched a blog on Amazon.com in connection with his well-received (and hilarious!) book Junior Ray. On his blog, Pritchard (as he’s affectionately called) has already begun hinting to readers about the return of Junior Ray.
Hans Koning Writes on Writing in the New York Times
As the newest book in the Hans Koning reprint series, The Kleber Flight, begins to arrive in bookstores, we bring you a link to Koning’s own essay in the New York Times “Writers on Writing” series, where he discusses his desire for a “subterranean” message in each of his books.
Grievances Tops North Carolina Bestseller List
A belated congratulations to author Mark Ethridge and his NewSouth book Grievances, which topped the Sandhills, North Carolina area best seller list according to The Pilot newspaper on June 18, 2006. Along with the bestseller list, Features Editor Faye Dasen reviewed Grievances, calling it a “great debut novel.” The full review is available from The […]
Hans Koning Reprint Series Helps Explore NewSouth's Larger Mission
As excitement grows about the release of the newest title in the Hans Koning reprint series, The Kleber Flight, I’m reminded of the Publisher’s Weekly article that ran on Hans and NewSouth back in 2001, which nicely summed up the mission of the then-new NewSouth.