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Category Archives: Southern Literature
A Good Southern Mystery
A Good Southern Mystery by Gary Wright “Some poems don’t rhyme and some stories don’t have a clear ending.” — Gilda Radner Who doesn’t love a good mystery? Whenever we hear a good ghost story we tend to suspend our … Continue reading
Posted in Ghosts with a Southern Accent, Southern Literature
Tagged Ambrose Bierce, Orion Williamson
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MEET MY MISSISSIPPI
William Faulkner’s Sanctuary Eudora Welty’s home state Elvis Presley’s birthplace The bulk of the Natchez Trace; Choctaw Nation native land Rolling hills of the Chickasaw band Sprawling beaches along the Gulf Coast shore One blues man’s Crossroads and inspiration for … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Literature
Tagged Meet My Mississippi, Mississippi, patricia neely-dorsey
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A Southern Christmas Memory
A Southern Christmas Memory by Deborah Fagan Carpenter “Imagine a morning in late November. A coming-of-winter morning more than twenty years ago. Consider the kitchen of a spreading old house in a country town. A great black stove is its … Continue reading
written with a southern accent
“There is only one unpardonable sin — deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven. That, never.” —Truman Capote, The Thanksgiving Visitor 4image is licensed under CC By 4.0 — linked to www.ihheduc.com
Posted in Southern Literature
Tagged alabama, exploring the south, southern literature, Thanksgiving, Truman Capote
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SOUTHERN SUSPENSE
Southern Suspense In the spirit of Porchscene’s continuing effort to celebrate the Southern voice and our commitment to introduce new Southern fiction, we’d like to make our readers aware of a couple of new suspense novels. Okay, there’s just a … Continue reading
A Stained White Radiance
“All men have a religion or totems of some kind. Even the atheist is committed to an enormous act of faith in his belief that the universe created itself and the subsequent creation of intelligent life was simply a … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Literature
Tagged James Lee Burke, southern fiction, southern literature, southern writer
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Written With a Southern Accent
“Einstein said the arrow of time flies in only one direction. Faulkner, being from Mississippi, understood the matter differently. He said the past is never dead; it’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Literature
Tagged exploring the south, Greg Iles, mississippi writers, southern literature
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FAREWELL PRINCE OF TIDES
“Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina lowcountry is an almost irreversible antidote to the charms of other landscapes, other alien geographies. … Continue reading
Written with a Southern Accent
When you have plenty of good strong hating you don’t need hope because the hating will be enough to nourish you. WILLIAM FAULKNER, Absalom, Absalom! 2
Posted in Southern Literature
Tagged exploring the south
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