Coach Bill Elder Comments on Don Klores’s Black Magic Documentary
Bill Elder’s memoir All Guts and No Glory recounts Bill’s struggles to break racial barriers with a a courageous group of white and black student athletes at Northeast State Junior College in Alabama in the early 1970s. Recently Bill watched Dan Klores’s documentary Black Magic, about basketball players at historically black colleges and universities during the civil rights movement, and he shares his thoughts about the program …
Fire Ants Finalist for Jesse Jones Award
Fire Ants, the new short story collection by Gerald Duff, is a finalist for the Jesse Jones Award for Best Book of Fiction in 2007, from the Texas Institute of Letters. The winner of the award will be announced April 19 at the organization’s annual banquet in Dallas, Texas …
Anna Olswanger Speaks on Children’s Book Trends with Women’s National Book Association
Anna Olswanger, author of Shlemiel Crooks, spoke as part of a panel discussion on February 21 with the Women’s National Book Association, New York Chapter …
Obama Philadelphia speech offered as free ebook
Senator Barack Obama’s speech Tuesday in Philadelphia has been widely quoted and discussed. Historian John Hope Franklin called it one of the most candid and significant public statements on race in American political history. NewSouth Books—which publishes widely on civil rights and racial and political issues—agrees and has formatted Obama’s complete text (which was released to the news media) into an easy to download and print ebook package. It is available for free download here.
Rheta Grimsley Johnson Featured in Montgomery Advertiser
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” …
Author Gerald Duff Sends Notes from On the Brink Conference
At the On the Brink conference at Jacksonville State University in Alabama, author Gerald Duff wonders at the meaning of Southern literature …
NewSouth Books Profiled for Publishing With a Purpose
NewSouth Books and publisher Suzanne La Rosa have been profiled in the Courier-Journal newspaper in Louisville, Kentucky, where La Rosa is based. In the article “Publishing with a Purpose” by Tamara Ikenberg, Publishers Weekly correspondent Edward Nawotka praises NewSouth as “a good example of a small, niche publisher, and they make a go of it in a publishing scene that is dominated by three or four national conglomerates” …
Jackie Matte Lectures at Johns Hopkins University
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 …
Steven Ford Brown to Speak in France on John Beecher
Author and translator Steven Ford Brown will speak on his work editing the poetry of John Beecher in NewSouth Books’ One More River to Cross, at the American Threads: Forms and Reform North and South conference, February 5-6, 2009 at the Université Paul Valéry in Montpellier III, France …
All Guts and No Glory Praised by Montgomery Advertiser
Auburn University Montgomery Professor Alan Gribben has reviewed Bill Elder’s sports memoir All Guts and No Glory in the Montgomery Advertiser newspaper. Writes Gribben, “Elder’s All Guts and No Glory deserves a place on the short shelf of highly readable coaches’ memoirs as well as (on a higher shelf) inclusion in the stack of titles recording the toll of breaking down color barriers to create the New South” …