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Southern Press comprises interviews with southern authors and reviews of select books that have been written by southern authors or feature southern themes.

SouthernEdition.com  A Review of Stumbling on Open Ground:  Love, God, Cancer, and Rock 'n' Roll
Southern Edition contributor Allen Hott explores Rick Bragg's Ava's Man, a follow-up to the memoir, All Over But the Shoutin'.  Bragg, a Pulitzer Prize winner, writes about his grandparents, Charlie and Ava Bundrum, with particular emphasis on his grandfather.  Hott explains, "Although Bragg was born after his granddaddy had died, you can feel the love and caring that grew in his heart, as he heard the stories about Ava's man."
SouthernEdition.com  A Review of The Architecture of Francis Palmer Smith: Atlanta's Scholar Architect
A key figure in country music's "Outlaw" movement, a Grammy Award-winning producer for the Gaither Vocal Band's celebrated Homecoming project and a former Beatles executive, Ken Mansfield, in his memoir, Stumbling on Open Ground, "gives a compelling account of how sustaining grace and unwavering hope have empowered him to confront life's fragility and endure its unexpected adversities.
In his "richly detailed and beautifully illustrated book," The Architecture of Francis Palmer Smith:  Atlanta's Scholar Architect, author Robert M. Craig presents an "exhaustive account of the career of famed Atlanta architect Francis Palmer Smith (1886-1971)," the architect of such Atlanta landmarks as Buckhead's Gothic Revival Cathedral of St. Phillip and the Cox Carlton Hotel (now Hotel Indigo Atlanta Midtown).
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A Review of Quirky Kids' Zoo

Mississippi children's book author Pat Brannon presents yet another delightfully entertaining and educational book for the young readers in your life.  Quirky Kids' Zoo fails to disappoint.


Patricia Neely-Dorsey:  A Mississippi Magnolia Discusses Her Collection of Poems

Tupelo native Patricia Neely-Dorsey, a self-professed "Goodwill Ambassador" for the state of Mississippi, discusses her passion for the American South and her collection of poetry, Reflections of a Mississippi Magnolia:  A Life in Poems.

A Review of Under Surge, Under Siege:  The Odyssey of Bay St. Louis and Katrina

This book review by Julian G. Brunt takes a look at Ellis Anderson's reflective Under Surge, Under Siege:  The Odyssey of Bay St. Louis and Katrina, the "only book written about Katrina and its impact on coastal Mississippi from a true insider's viewpoint."

A Review of With Music and Justice for All:  Some Southerners and Their Passions

Critically acclaimed author and journalist Frye Gaillard, in With Music and Justice for All:  Some Southerners and Their Passions, explores "larger-than-life figures" such as Johnny Cash, Jimmy Carter, Billy Graham and Bob Dylan 'from the realms of religion, music, civil rights and social change.'

A Review of The New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion to Georgia Literature

Edited by Hugh Ruppersburg, The New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion to Georgia Literature is a print anthology comprised of entries devoted to authors and literary works covered by the groundbreaking, digital New Georgia Encyclopedia.  The book is more than "capable of both thoroughly enlightening the merely curious and supplying a wealth of information from which serious students of great writing can glean."

A Review of Why New Orleans Matters

Tom Piazza "emphatically and ardently makes a compelling case for rebuilding and preserving the city he has called home for over a decade" in Why New Orleans Matters, which was published following Hurricane Katrina.

A Review of Freedom:  A Photographic History of the African American Struggle

Freedom:  A Photographic History of the African American Struggle, is hardly a "coffee table book designed to be aesthetically appealing or entertaining, but rather it is a compelling visual tool that will enable readers to explore the past and better understand how far we've come and how much further we need to go before racial equality -- and harmony -- are truly attained."
Patricia Neely-Dorsey:  A Mississippi Magnolia Discusses Her Collection of Poems
A Review of Under Surge, Under Siege:  The Odyssey of Bay St. Louis and Katrina
A Review of With Music and Justice for All:  Some Southerners and Their Passions
A Review of The New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion to Georgia Literature
A Review of Why New Orleans Matters
A Review of Freedom:  A Photographic History of the African American Struggle
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