The celebrated Kentucky novelist shifts genres with his first murder mystery, set in a world shaped by unjust losses, forbidden loves, and Southern lore. Chuck Reece dives deep into the culture and craft that helped Silas House create Dead Man Blues.

In conversation with Jessica Handler, Alabama’s first Black and youngest Poet Laureate, Ashley M. Jones, shares how mourning a parent and carrying the weight of Black Southern history converge in her new poetry, forging a path from memory to joy.

Throughout a storied career shaping the stories Southerners tell themselves, John T. Edge found himself in the national spotlight—all while he was running away from a traumatic past.

Two historians of the Jewish South, Marcie Cohen Ferris and Shari Rabin, trace how Jewish lives and identities have shaped—and been shaped by—the South’s complex history.

The 2021 National Book Award-winner returns this week with a new novel, People Like Us. In this candid conversation, Mott reflects on truth-telling through fiction—and what it means to write while Black in the South.

Alabama poet Tina Mozelle Braziel and novelist James Braziel talk about love, endurance, and creativity in their handmade glass cabin—a project that became a home, an acclaimed book, and an inspiration.

Abe Partridge and Chuck Reece discuss connecting with their WWII ancestors—and the urgent search for genuine heroes in the modern South.

What happens when a novelist who blurs the line between myth and memory swaps paragraphs with an editor who is obsessed with both? Daniel Wallace and Chuck Reece meet at the border between The Real and The Fantastic.

Louisville poet Emma Aprile, winner of our inaugural Salvation South New Poets Prize, discusses her creative process, the landscapes that shape her work, and what it means to write from and for the South.

Kentucky poet Joy Priest shares, in this conversation with Chuck Reece, how writing became both her salvation and her rebellion.

Octavio Quintanilla’s roots lie deep in both South Texas and Mexico. And his work dwells between worlds—geographic, cultural, and emotional.

The North Carolina poet Han VanderHart feels power in the places where the stories of Southerners intersect—and believes that, by telling them courageously, we help each other heal.