The 50 Best Southern Novels Ever Written

By Tyler Coates on Apr 2, 2014 - Flavorwire

The American South has long been seen as the focus of the country’s Civil Rights Movement, carrying with it the stigma of poverty, racism, and anti-intellectualism. Yet the region has also produced a disproportionate number of intellectuals, poets, and writers, possibly because of the complicated and layered identities each Southerner holds within him- or herself. The South has begotten some of our nation’s most important authors, including prize winners like William Styron, Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, Ralph Ellison, Harper Lee, and that titan of American letters, William Faulkner. These 50 novels are a reminder that the South cannot be defined solely by its failings; it is also responsible for shaping the minds of countless thinkers who offered to American literature essential insights about not only their region but the world at… Read More

National Poetry Month Daily Poem: ‘In Memory of Radio’ by Amiri Baraka

By Jason Diamond on Apr 2, 2014 - Flavorwire

To celebrate National Poetry Month, Flavorwire will be posting a poem a day. For today’s installment, we have “In Memory… Read More