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Leah Rawls Atkins praises Mary Ann Neeley’s Works of Matthew Blue,...
This review originally appeared in The Alabama Review: A Quarterly Journal of Alabama History, July 2011, Vol. 64, No. 3. Review by Leah Rawls Atkins, Auburn University. The Works of Matthew Blue:...
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Ralph Nader recommends Shelton’s Consequential Learning as wake-up call to...
Politician and consumer advocate Ralph Nader, in his December 22 column “Recommended Holiday Reading for the Caring, Agitated Mind” posted on his website, recommended Jack Shelton’s Consequential...
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Robert Taylor architectural biography praised in New York Times, Press-Register
Dr. Ellen Weiss’s new lushly-illustrated biography of African American architect Robert Taylor is helping bring this figure the recognition he deserves. The January 12 New York Times “Antiques” column...
View ArticleWilliam Gay remembered by Southern novelist John Pritchard
From our author John Pritchard: I cannot claim to have known William Gay well. But I admired him very, very much, and my life was touched by him in more than just an abstract way. Indeed, he blurbed my...
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Senator Lister Hill biography praised for civil description of politics
Politics is never simple, but as the current race for the White House continues to heat up, it’s nice to recall a simpler — or at least friendlier — time. It’s for these elements that Professor Michael...
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Henry Wall signs From Healing to Hell at Blakely Peanut Proud
Dr. Henry Wall signed his family story From Healing to Hell at the 3 Diamonds bookstore in Blakely, Georgia, during the March 24 Peanut Proud Festival. In From Healing to Hell Wall tell show his...
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Eddie Pattillo talks Carolina Planters with South Carolina’s Walter Edgar’s...
A detailed interview and a glowing review are just the latest to spotlight Eddie Pattillo’s unique book of history, Carolina Planters on the Alabama Frontier. Here, Pattillo, an Alabama historian,...
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Author Rod Davis reviews Making War at Fort Hood in Texas Observer
Rod Davis’s forthcoming South, America is being compared to the works of James M. Cain and Mickey Spillane, and described as “a powerful evocation of pre-Katrina New Orleans and as absorbing a tale of...
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Historian Jeff Benton’s new book Respectable and Disreputable: Leisure Time...
Jeff Benton, known for his “Montgomery Portraits” features in the Montgomery Advertiser, has written another; this time, it’s a portrait of how antebellum Montgomerians spent their leisure time....
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Remembering John Egerton
The South (and the nation, too, though he was a true Southerner in the best senses of the term) was diminished today with the sudden death by heart attack of the Nashville-based writer John Egerton....
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Faulkner comparisons abound in Sailing to Alluvium reviews
Author John Pritchard’s newest “southern redneck tour-de-force,” Sailing to Alluvium, continues to entertain and maybe offend (just a little) with a bevy of great local and national reviews. Chapter...
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Leah Rawls Atkins praises Mary Ann Neeley’s Works of Matthew Blue,...
This review originally appeared in The Alabama Review: A Quarterly Journal of Alabama History, July 2011, Vol. 64, No. 3. Review by Leah Rawls Atkins, Auburn University. The Works of Matthew Blue:...
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John Pritchard talks Sailing to Alluvium, Junior Ray with Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly has just released a great Q&A with John Pritchard, author of the “Junior Ray” books and the newly released Sailing to Alluvium. PW Southern correspondent Paige Crutcher spoke with...
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Child welfare advocate Denny Abbott tours with new book
Nationally recognized child welfare advocate Denny Abbott brought his story of creating positive change in the juvenile detention system to the campuses of Troy University recently in a series of...
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Julie Williams’s “secret” service: author avoids spilling beans to Laura Bush...
Author Julie Williams sent this missive from her recent appearance at the Cherry Blossom Festival in Marshfield, Mo. It’s darn hard for a reporter to keep a secret. True, 100 percent of journalists...
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Announcing South, America, Rod Davis’s latest New Orleans noir mystery
Author Rod Davis won a PEN Southwest Fiction Award for his debut novel Corina’s Way, set in New Orleans and starring the unforgettable voudou priestess Corina Youngblood. In Davis’s newest novel,...
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NewSouth Books Remembers Virginia Pounds Brown
On May 26, 2014, NewSouth Books lost a longtime friend and beloved author, Virginia Pounds Brown. Although we will miss her in our books family, we will always remember her as a woman who was lively...
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Tavis Smiley Show hosts Clifton Taulbert to discuss memoir, The Invitation
Radio host and commentator Tavis Smiley interviewed Clifton Taulbert, bestselling author of titles including the award-winning Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored, in early June in connection with...
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Forsaken by Ross Howell Jr.: in anticipation of Feb. 2016 release, book...
February 2016 isn’t far off, at least in book publishing terms. With the release of Forsaken around the corner, the hard work of promoting the book begins. For author Ross Howell Jr., this includes a...
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Randall Williams remembers author, friend Wade Hall
NewSouth Books co-founder and editor in chief Randall Williams eulogized his friend author Wade Hall, who passed away on September 26, in an article for the Montgomery Advertiser. NewSouth Books...
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