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“Simply the Best” Wins LA Press Club Award

The legend from Nutbush, Tennessee, always knew what love had to do with it.

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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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