“People think I sew, but that’s not really what I do,” Ruth E. Carter says in the Netflix design series Abstract. “What I do is tell stories.”
Carter, a hist...
E.R. Anderson started plastering “Wash Your Hands” signs all over the walls at Charis Books and More last January, long before most people had heard the word “c...
In the second novel by Tim Westover, The Winter Sisters (2019), the self-described Southern transplant deftly explores the tensions between science and supersti...
Carson McCullers’ The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter was published in 1940 to critical acclaim, and with its success came windfall fame and accolades for the writer, ...
There’s a lot to unpack in Ann Hite’s memoir, Roll the Stone Away (Mercer University Press, 2020). In it, the former Georgia Author of the Year unflinchingly re...
Stephen King said, “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” That statement is due no doubt to the ability of the written word to transport readers up and out of a...
Stephen King said, “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” The written word can transport readers up and out of and beyond their current circumstances, places, m...
The shops started to close two weeks ago.
Bookish in East Atlanta made the tough decision to close its doors to walk-in business on March 15, and others, in...
For most, the death of Atlanta-born Pat Conroy in 2016 meant the loss of a true Southern literary iconoclast, the quieting of one of the most compelling voices ...
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me,” declares Jane Eyre in Charlotte Brontë’s seminal novel. “I am a free human being with an independent will.”
Charlotte...
