Books

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Arts & Culture

Thirty Years of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

The bestseller’s author, John Berendt, on what he’d do differently and what it’s like as the book’s sole surviving character

Books

The Books by Southern Authors that Made Us Laugh Out Loud

A reading list for the dreary days of winter
Arts & Culture

Murder, She Wrote: Catching Up with the South’s Agatha Christie, Laura Lippman

The prolific author talks about setting her true crime novels in Baltimore, claiming her Southern identity, and how the pandemic inspired her latest caper about a prom gone wrong

The Southerner's Handbook

How to Build a Library

Five essential Southern books

Arts & Culture

Saving the Farm: How One Southern Family Has Long Championed the Radical Power of Rural Life

Mary Berry, the farmer, writer, and executive director of the Berry Center, talks about her love of place and what she has learned from her father, Wendell Berry