Faith, Fiction, Friends

I grew up in the Deep South of the 1950s and 1960s. Social change wasn’t only in the air; it was in the streets and, more importantly, in th...

4 Mistakes I See Nonfiction Authors Make (and How to Fix Them) – Ann Kroeker, Writing Coach.  The Old World is Not Coming Back  – speech by ...

If there is one writer who cast the largest shadow upon southern U.S. literature in the 20 th   century, it’s William Faulkner. He also cast...

I have two features at Literary Life today. One is a poem, "Imago Dei," that helps to introduce Literary Life's book feat...

William Faulkner wrote Soldier’s Pay , his first novel, during the first six months of 1925. He was living in New Orleans, in a ground-...

My introduction to the writing of William Faulkner was indirect. It began in college and almost didn’t survive college. Way back wh...

In 1925 New Orleans, it was called Orleans Alley, more a broad walkway from Chartres Street and Jackson Square to Royal Street. On the ...

The bacchanals of the night before consigned to memory, someone else’s, and it is sufficient to walk the streets from Canal to E...

I can pinpoint the year I first read Flannery O’Connor . It was 1976, I was 24 going on 25, and a new person had joined the Public Aff...