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FOLLOW THESE LINKS FOR THE DELUXE, EXPANDED, ONLINE-ONLY EDITION OF THE OA SOUTHERN LIT POLL featuring an annotated list of the results (500 or so fiction, nonfiction, and underrated masterpieces—and ...

His novels are engaging, readable, and present us with a version of the South that is rapidly disappearing. Burke’s primary interest is the Cajun South, the bayou South, the French-speaking South that is rapidly being subsumed by larger interests. Yes, he trafficks heavily in nostalgia for a long-...

The Yellowhammer Press is a hub for Southern art, literature, and culture. With a particular focus on emerging artists and writers, Yellowhammer seeks to illuminate the intersection between traditional Southern culture and its effect on contemporary artists.

When, I wonder, did it become commonplace with Southern writers to center a body of work in one specific small town? Wendell Berry has his Port William. Ron Rash had his Cliffside. I suspect it all started with Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha. George Singleton has recently given us Forty-Five, South Car...

The Yellowhammer Press is a hub for Southern art, literature, and culture. With a particular focus on emerging artists and writers, Yellowhammer seeks to illuminate the intersection between traditional Southern culture and its effect on contemporary artists.

Unless you live under a rock, you’re at least dimly aware that Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol was released recently. Brown kicked off the esoteric conspiracy craze in 2003 with The Da Vinci Code, a book so unbearably, ploddingly awful that AO Scott of the NY Times called it “Dan Brown’s best-selling p...

Cracker Culture is McWhiney’s most well-formed manifestation of his Celtic thesis. Other books, like the slim and morbid Attack and Die: Civil War Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage, rely on it but don’t explore the idea in full. Cracker Culture draws on 3 main points to link early Souther...

A site about Southern Culture. Art, lit, music. The intersection of Southernness and (post) modernity.

“Dangerous” is not how one is likely to describe The Queen Family: Appalachian Tradition and Back Porch Music. The short documentary (< 30 minutes) chronicles a rural North Carolina family whose roots in mountain music reach centuries into the past, and even across the Atlantic...

Reading about the South with any measure of objectivity is hard, if not damn near impossible. No other region in American history has been so heavily politicized or saddled with so much historical and semiotic baggage as the Deep South. There are few places, even in academia (or perhaps especially...