Novelist Walker Percy once said that the only remaining unexplored territory in Southern literature was the Jewish southerner. Famous all over Town, the first novel from Southern storyteller Bernie Schein, stakes a claim on Percy's...
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- Author: Schein, Bernie ; Owens, JanisSummary:
- Author: Pickering, SamSummary:
Part travelogue, part psychological self-study, Sam Pickering's Edinburgh Days, or Doing What I Want to Do is an open invitation to be led on a walking tour of Scotland's capital, as well as through the labyrinth of the guide's swerving...
- Author: Laurence, Patricia OndekSummary:
Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes traces the romance of Julian Bell, nephew of Virginia Woolf, and Ling Shuhua, a writer and painter Bell met while teaching at Wuhan University in China in 1935. Relying on a wide selection of previously...
- Author: Pineda, Jon ; de la Paz, OliverSummary:
The third collection by the prize-winning Asian American poet Jon Pineda, Little Anodynes is a sequence of lyrical, personal narratives that continue Pineda's exploration of his biracial identity, the haunting loss of his sister, and...
- Author: Thompson, Michael D.Summary:
Working on the Dock of the Bay explores the history of waterfront labor and laborers — black and white, enslaved and free, native and immigrant — in Charleston, SC, between the American Revolution and Civil War. Michael D. Thompson...
- Author: Schneider, Stephen A.Summary:
You Can’t Padlock an Idea examines the educational programs undertaken at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee and looks specifically at how these programs functioned rhetorically to promote democratic social change. Founded in 1932...
- Author: Lane, John ; Cash, WileySummary:
On a placid Blue Ridge mountain lake on Labor Day Weekend in 1935, three locals sightseeing in an overloaded boat drown, and the cotton mill scion who owns the lake is indicted for their murders. Decades later Ben Crocker — witness to...
- Author: Frye, StevenSummary:
Named by Harold Bloom as one of the most significant American novelists of our time, Cormac McCarthy has been honored with the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for All the Pretty Horses, the James Tait...
- Author: LeClercq, Anne Sinkler WhaleySummary:
From Italy to Switzerland, Germany to Spain and Philadelphia to New Orleans, Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq describes the beauty of different historic gardens in this collection of essays. A Grand Tour of Gardens: Traveling in Beauty...
- Author: Moïse, Ben McCSummary:
Ben McC. Moïse served with distinction as a South Carolina game warden for nearly a quarter century, patrolling the coastal woods and waters of the Palmetto State. In this colorful career-spanning memoir, the cigar-chomping, ticket-...
- Author: Bauer, Margaret DonovanSummary:
There are two portrayals of Scarlett O’Hara: the widely familiar one of the film Gone with the Wind and Margaret Mitchell’s more sympathetic character in the book. In A Study of Scarletts, Margaret D. Bauer examines these two...
- Author: Pompe, JeffreySummary:
The constant assault of natural forces make fragile barrier islands some of the most rapidly changing locations in the world, but human activities have had enormous impact on these islands as well. In Altered Environments, Jeffrey and...
- Author: Giannone, RichardSummary:
"Lord, I'm glad I'm a hermit novelist," Flannery O'Connor wrote to a friend in 1957. Sequestered by ill health, O'Connor spent the final thirteen years of her life on her isolated family farm in rural Georgia. During this productive...
- Author: Sibley-Jones, John Mark ; Lucas, Marion B.Summary:
Fear and brutality grip Columbia, South Carolina, in the harsh winter of 1865 as General William Tecumseh Sherman continues his fiery march to the sea and advances on the capital city where secession began. John Mark Sibley-Jones's By...
- Author: Edgar, WalterSummary:
Originally published in 1992, South Carolina in the Modern Age was the first history of contemporary South Carolina to appear in more than a quarter century and helped establish the reputation of the Palmetto State's premier historian,...
- Author: Hagood, JohnsonSummary:
Major General Johnson Hagood (1873–1948) was one of South Carolina's most distinguished army officers of the 20th century. An artillerist and a scholar of military science, Hagood became a noted expert in logistics, and served as the...
- Author: Bathanti, JosephSummary:
In a weaving together of contradictory realms' past and present, rustbelt city and rural/urban South, old-world Catholicism and backwoods Protestantism — Joseph Bathanti draws readers into the 1970s as protagonist George Dolce...
- Author: Arthos, JohnSummary:
John Arthos discovers and promotes an organic reciprocity between rhetoric as a humanist practice and hermeneutics as a theoretical comportment. Although these two traditions have a long and rewarding collaboration, it is only now that...
- Gleaning Ruth : a biblical heroine and her afterlives, studies on personalities of the Old TestamentAuthor: Koosed, Jennifer L.Summary:
The biblical story of Ruth celebrates the power to begin life anew, to gather what has been scattered, to glean what one needs. In this original approach to understanding an ancient love story, Jennifer L. Koosed crafts a multifaceted...
- Author: May, BrianSummary:
Brian T. May argues that, contrary to widely held assumptions of postcolonial literary criticism, a distinctive subset of postcolonial novels significantly values and scrupulously explores a healthy individuality. These “extravagant”...