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August 2015, Wales Arts Review
A Good Book isn't Hard to Find
Ten Works of Southern Fiction to read with/ or instead of Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman.
Whatever your thoughts on this year's hotly anticipated return visit to the Finch family of Maycomb, Southern literature's rich treasure trove has plenty to offer.
July 2015, Wales Arts Review
Waiting for Watchman: My Summer with Harper Lee
I travel to the real-life Maycomb, Harper Lee's hometown of Monroeville, Alabama for the launch of her new novel Go Set a Watchman, the author's first published work in 55 years.
Over two tormentingly hot days in July, locals, Lee devotees and curious tourists congregated in numerous venues around the town’s famous courthouse square, keen to be a part of literary history.
July 2015, Wales Arts Review
Go Set a Watchman Photo Essay: A Day in Maycomb
Photo essay depicting Monroeville, Alabama, a small town around an hour and half west of state capitol Montgomery – home to Harper Lee, and with a few tweaks here and there, the real-life setting of her international bestselling 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
July 2015, Wales Arts Review
Summer Reads
Preview of Go Set a Watchman for Wales Arts Review's summer reading list.
I look ahead to Harper Lee's first novel in over half a century and the controversy over its publication.
June 2015, Deep South Magazine
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Read- along
The third and final piece in a series for Deep South Magazine looking at Carson McCullers' debut novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, celebrating its 75th anniversary this year.
June 2015, Deep South Magazine
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Read-along
Second installment in a series for Deep South Magazine on Carson McCullers' novel
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
June 2015, Deep South Magazine
The Heart is a Lonley Hunter Read-along
In June 2015, I co-hosted a month long read-along of Carson McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely Hunter with Deep South Magazine, to mark the novel's 75th anniversary.
Here is the first in a series of pieces looking at McCullers' masterpiece.