Southern bound : a Gulf coast journalist on books, writers, and literary pilgrimages of the heart / John S. Sledge ; foreword by Walter Edgar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sledge, John S. (John Sturdivant), 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books and reading--Southern States.

Books and reading.

Books--Reviews.

Books.

Southern States--Intellectual life--20th century.

Southern States.

Southern States--Intellectual life--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of extraordinary columns on all things literary from an accomplished Southern critic, historian, and preservationist.

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: For the Love of Books; The South; Essence of the South Remains Hard to Define; Slaves in the Family; Ball's Book Strikes Personal Chord with Historian; Rivers of History; Bumper Crop of Poems Celebrates Life on the Land; Faulkner's ""Blood and Thunder"" Novel Endures; Oprah Makes Brave, Bold Choice with Faulkner; Liuzzo Biographer Brings a Sense of Justice to Topic; South Carolina's Charms Preserved in Encyclopedia; Young Woman's Diaries Basis of Wonderful Book

Painter Mary Whyte Shows Keen Eye for Laborers in Working South The Civil War; Slaves' Memories Offer Harrowing Accounts of War; LSU Press Revives Story of Army of Tennessee; Lee's True Legacy beyond Latest Biographer; Pelham's Valor Shines in Maxwell's Perfect Lion; Eye of the Storm: Union Soldier's Illustrated Memoir Confirms Civil War Was Tragedy for All; Co. Aytch a Direct Link to Army in Gray; Chance Discovery Reveals Details of Mobile Campaign; Chaffin Cuts Through to Clear View of Hunley; Poetry Collection from out of the Blue and Gray; Rosen Invigorates Civil War Setting

The Gulf Coast Renaissance Year in Greece Yields Book for Native Mobilian; Our Voice of Reason; Author Finds Inspiration in Writer Eugene Walter; Store Specializes in Antique Volumes; Hollon's The God File Deserves National Attention; Black Belt Chronicles Richly Deserve Recognition; Mobile Native Knight a Fast-Rising Literary Star; Breech a Violent, Dark Tale from Franklin; Scully's In the Hope of Rising Again a Gem; Chicken Dreaming Corn: Family Tales Spur Captivating Novel of Mobile; Emotional Exploration of a Deplorable Event; Groom Takes Big Step with Vicksburg; Architecture

How Did Our Gardens Grow? Famously, It Seems Mississippi's Victorian Treasures Get Their Due; Alabama's Architecture Gets Some Overdue Respect; William Faulkner and the Tangible Past: The Architecture of Yoknapatawpha; Matrana Shows Pride and Ruin of Plantations; Historian Upends Ideas on American Architecture; Scholar-Town Houses Have Many Tales to Tell; Legacy Presents a Detailed Look at Rayfield's Work; Fallingwater Study Cuts Myths, Affirms Merits; The Architect of America; New Orleans Takes Shape in an Architect's Memoir; Literary Pilgrimages; Stumbling on a Fossil of a Southern Dinosaur

McMurtry's Hometown a Paradise for Collectors Drama of Story Comes Alive in Monroeville; A Night in the Library; Finding Cahaba: New Book Rekindles Fascination with Alabama's First Capital; Looking Past Midnight; A Literary Ramble through Old New Orleans; Oxford, Mississippi: A Literary Profile; A Small City of Literary Giants: Greenville, Mississippi; Visit to Library Is a Return to Childhood; Images from the Literary Side of Paris, with a Personal Touch; Walter-Inspired Dream an Affirmation of Creativity; Classics and Old Favorites Revisited

A Tale Worthy of the Centuries: Looking into Chapman's Iliad

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781299241107

1299241107

9781611172362

1611172365

OCLC:

834129368