southern gothic

Exploring the Literary South: 5 Texas Destinations for the Literary Traveler

By Hannah White I grew up spending summers in the Piney Woods of deep East Texas with my late father’s family. Texas was his home before he moved up north…

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Tours

Mystery and Manners in Savannah

Call 1.844.378.2869 for more information and mention Literary Traveler ITINERARY To read Flannery O’Connor’s fiction is to be amused, provoked, and pushed to reconsider our place in the world. A Roman…

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Mississippi river by David Carroll photographer

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Articles

Barry Hannah’s Late Love Song to Mississippi: “Get Some Young”

By William Caverlee. In devising his strange fictions, Mississippi’s Barry Hannah was nearer to a poet and musician than a prose writer, and his language inventions reached a peak in…

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Books

The Southern Vampire Mysteries: How to Survive the Fall without True Blood

by Amanda Festa For the past five years, summer has brought many much-anticipated guilty pleasures. Beach days, BBQs, Sam Adams’ Summer Ale, sun bathing. And, of course, a new…

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