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SoLit Blog and Book Reviews


Lynda LeVan
Nov 1, 20223 min read
Now is Not the Time to Panic - Book Review
Who could’ve known two small town teenagers were responsible for a mass panic through their art that they thought no one would care...
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Lynda LeVan
Sep 20, 20223 min read
What the Fireflies Knew - Book Review
How can KB, a ten-year-old girl, make sense of the world that she once knew and loved being shattered in front of her very eyes? Why...
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Jun 2, 20221 min read
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Lynda LeVan
Apr 26, 20222 min read
Memphis - Book Review
Tara M. Stringfellow's captivating debut novel, Memphis, follows the complex story of 3 generations of black women. The North family...
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Lynda LeVan
Mar 22, 20223 min read
The Iguana Tree - Book Review
Michel Stone's award winning novel, The Iguana Tree, is a harrowing yet movingly authentic story of a young family seeking refuge and a...
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Lynda LeVan
Feb 15, 20223 min read
The Tannery - Book Review
Michael A. Almond debuts his first novel, The Tannery, a slow burn work of historical Southern fiction, murder-mystery, and legal thrills...
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Jo Kibble
Aug 17, 20212 min read
The Power of Conviction in Susan Cushman's "John & Mary Margaret"
How do we stay true to our convictions, and how much do we allow society to dictate how strongly those convictions are held? These are...
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Jo Kibble
May 25, 20213 min read
The Power of Memory in Jill McCorkle's "Hieroglyphics"
In Jill McCorkle's latest novel Hieroglyphics, 85-year-old Lil Wishart and her husband Frank have moved from Massachusetts to North...
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Jo Kibble
Oct 16, 20203 min read
Writing for our Wilds: Ron Rash's "In the Valley"
In Ron Rash's hotly anticipated follow-up to his beloved 2008 title Serena, Rash gives us 10 allegorical tales and one novella based off...
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Jo Kibble
Aug 26, 20203 min read
Forging for Freedom: Kristin Harmel's "The Book of Lost Names"
New York Times bestselling author Kristin Harmel’s latest, The Book of Lost Names, tells the moving, courageous, brave tale of Eva...
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Olivette Petersen
Jan 23, 20203 min read
A Captivating Coming of Age Story: The Emancipation of Evan Walls
Emmy award-winning Jeffrey Blount’s third novel, The Emancipation of Evan Walls, is a harrowing glimpse at the American South during the...
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Kirsten Klassen
Nov 21, 20193 min read
Tell Me a Story - Book Review
Published for the first time under her married name, Cassandra King Conroy tells the story of her marriage to author Pat Conroy in...
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Kirsten Klassen
Sep 3, 20193 min read
Jeff Zentner Book Review
“Sometimes small and unspectacular things can be a universe.” (excerpt from Rayne and Delilah’s Midnite Matinee by Jeff Zentner) Jeff...
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Eleanor Howard
Jun 5, 20194 min read
The Summer Guests Review
If your idea of a gutsy, fast-moving story exploring the bonds a friendship, the lengths someone will go for the love and devotion of...
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Howard Brown
May 22, 20193 min read
A Shit-Storm of Plastic
As Published in Tuck Magazine You wake up in the morning, reach over and shut off the plastic alarm clock which sits on the bedside...
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Howard Brown
Apr 10, 20191 min read
Astride a Fiery Demon
Astride a fiery demon, those smitten with envy cruise through the world longing for things that, by right, are not their own. Their...
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Olivia Sanford
Mar 22, 20193 min read
Poetic Memoirs
Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs Beth Ann Fennelly "Maybe, at the end, there will be a reckoning of kisses. Maybe, along with good...
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Olivia Sanford
Feb 22, 20193 min read
America’s Favorite President Involved in an Exciting Mystery
These Honored Dead First book in the Lincoln and Speed Mystery Series By Jonathan F. Putnam Book Review by Southern Lit Alliance intern,...
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Howard Brown
Jan 7, 20191 min read
The Man on the Porch
Picture a man if you will, sitting at high noon on the porch of a ramshackle house, a structure in such advanced decay it seems poised to...
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Eleanor Howard
Nov 29, 20183 min read
You Don't Need a Green Thumb to Enjoy this Memoir
Mister Owita’s Guide to Gardening How I Learned the Unexpected Joy of a Green Thumb and an Open Heart By Carol Wall Every once in a while...
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