As the situation in Afghanistan continues to devolve, evacuating U.S. citizens and the Afghans who aided our efforts over the last twenty years continues to be an urgent issue. Steven Moore wrote about one such man who worked with his unit in The Longer We Were There: A Memoir of a Part-Time Soldier. Like many…
The “Sherlock Holmes of the Georgia coast” according to Janisse Ray, in his forthcoming Tracking the Golden Isles: The Natural and Human Histories of the Georgia Coast, Anthony J. Martin invites us to investigate animal and human traces on the Georgia coast and the remarkable stories these traces, both modern and fossil, tell us. Below…
A couple weeks ago, we released a Q&A with the editor of Vinegar and Char: Verse from the Southern Foodways Alliance, Sandra Beasley. You can read it here. The poetry collection explores what it means to be southern, diversity, and, of course, food. Here is the first poem of the collection: Times Like These: Marianna, Florida…
Alpine Apprentice by Sarah Gorham has been named a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay! The PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay aims to preserve the dignity and esteem that the essay form imparts to literature. The winner receives a $10,000 prize and will be honored at the PEN…
In honor of Veteran’s Day we are posting an excerpt from the forthcoming collection My American Night by Christopher P. Collins, winner of the Georgia Poetry Prize. Collins is himself a former military officer and a twelve-year veteran of the U.S. Army Reserve, having completed three overseas combat deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq. His collection of lyric poems…
by Bill Shipp This September we are reprinting a new edition of Bill Shipp’s award-winning Murder at Broad River Bridge: The Slaying of Lemuel Penn by the Ku Klux Klan. In his book, longtime Atlanta Constitution reporter Bill Shipp, reports on the stunning details of the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Lemuel Penn by the Ku Klux Klan on a…
To celebrate International Women’s Day we’re posting the graphic essay “Here” by Kristen Radtke, which comes from the recently published collection Waveform: Twenty-First-Century Essays by Women edited by Marcia Aldrich.
The following is an excerpt from the just-released Charleston and the Emergence of Middle Class Culture in the Revolutionary Era by Jennifer L. Goloboy, the latest addition to the Early American Places series from the UGA Press. Why study Charleston’s merchants as exemplars of the middle class? The essential problem of the man in business…
This month the Richard B. Russell Jr. Special Collections Library’s book club is reading Paul Hemphill’s The Nashville Sound: Bright Lights and Country Music. (A book the Chicago Sun-Times called “the best book ever written about country music.”) The book club meets Tuesday, May 26 at 5:30 pm, so today we’re running an excerpt from the…
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