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All articles filed in southern literature

ReviewsSeptember 15, 2019September 16, 2019

Review of Reckonings by Ryan Walsh

Review of Ryan Walsh’s 2019 collection of poetry, Reckonings.

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ReviewsFebruary 21, 2018February 21, 2018

The Dead Become a Song: Review of Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing

Jesmyn Ward is the New South’s voice and artist. Her new novel is painful, melancholy, and beautifully wrought.

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StoriesDecember 16, 2017December 16, 2017

My Buddy Bill: Y’all Need Faulkner

Faulkner scares people. With as much truth as he’s dropping, he probably should.

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I’m Rachel, a jaded twenty-something English grad student looking to tell some stories. Currently based in Knoxville, Tennessee, born and bred in rural Alabama. Here you’ll find liberal political tirades, stories, book reviews, and folklore focused in on these lower Southeastern thirteen states.

The title “Snake and Tree” comes from the Alabama proverb that if you hang a dead snake in a tree it’ll bring rain. These stories are the snake. The rain is making peace with this broke South.

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