This is my favorite photo of myself. It was Christmas. I was two years old, clutching my teddy bear and wearing my cowgirl outfit. You can’t tell, but the boots were red, and I wore them everywhere. Later, I acquired a coonskin cap, just like Davy—Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier. Back then I […]
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At the Decatur Book Festival recently, I attended the panel on the art of book reviewing which was made up of three local reviewers and two authors. Since this is a topic of great interest to me as a bookseller, I thought it would make an interesting blog post to increase our collective knowledge. Gina Webb, book reviewer at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, agreed […]
Here in the South, we are blessed to have The Southern Literary Trail, the nation’s only tri-state literary trail, featuring writers’ homes in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi—three states said to be perennially at the bottom of US literacy rates. William Faulkner was once asked, Why don’t more Southerners read? He replied, Because they’re too busy writing. […]
Readers Unbound 