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The Names of Love

How music and blackberries nourish and knit us together.

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No Tears for Granny Vance

The last time she saw her Granny alive, she was only six and looking through a hospital window. But it wasn’t the last time she saw her. Not at all.

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A Tennessee musician wrestles with ghosts—the troubling, the beloved, and the holy.

Atlanta journalist Jim Auchmutey interviewed President Carter many times during his career. The most memorable happened 17 years ago in Jimmy and Rosalynn’s kitchen.

At two venerable Alabama barbecue institutions — Archibald’s in Northport and Lannie’s in Selma — the seasoning isn’t in the rub. It’s in the wood.

Alabama Poet Laureate Ashley M. Jones creates entire worlds in three new poems and affirms the power of poetry to help us see others and ourselves.

In Salvation South’s story lineup this week, we do a deep dive into the Ring Shout — an essential piece of Southern culture. We throw in some Elvis Presley and Pat Conroy for a bonus.

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A posthumous collection of stories from Mississippi’s Brad Watson, who left a legacy of beautiful fiction, is just out. Alabama novelist Caleb Johnson, a student of Watson’s, has this remembrance.

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