Author Ted Dunagan's book A Yellow Watermelon was featured on the NBC-15 Mobile, Alabama news's "Here's Darwin" segment. Reporter Darwin Singleton visited with Ted after the author spoke with Mrs. Fulton, Mrs. W. Smith, and Mrs. Sessions classes at Dunbar Middle School on April 24, 2008. Ted spoke with the students about Yellow Watermelon, and how the book's setting was influenced by Ted's youth in Grove Hill. Darwin praised the book as engaging for students, and yet "older adults find it engrossing as well" ...
Historian Warren Trest's new authorized biography of former Alabama Governor John Patterson, Nobody But the People, has been receiving a great deal of press coverage, as newspapers have detailed numerous well-received appearances made by Trest and Governor Patterson in connection with the publication. The biography offers new insights and rich details into the life of a significant Southern politician whose career touched some of the key struggles of the twentieth century civil rights movement ...
The 16th Annual Poets House Showcase, featuring this year's new poetry books, also displayed a number of titles from NewSouth Books. More than 2,000 titles were on display from April 12-19 at the historic Jefferson Market Library ...
Book editor Susan Larson has reviewed American Crisis, Southern Solutions, the collection of Southern political essays edited by NewSouth author Anthony Dunbar. Larson favorably compares American Crisis and it’s predecessor Where We Stand: Voices of Southern Dissent to the Agrarian anthology of the 1930s “I’ll Take My Stand.” She praises the essayists and Dunbar for creating a collection that “shows the ways in which the South can offer solutions to national dilemmas” ...
Congratulations to former NewSouth intern Matthew Nelson, who will be working in Santa Monica, California, this semester as a script-reading intern for Lions Gate Entertainment ...
Bill Elder's memoir All Guts and No Glory recounts Bill's struggles to break racial barriers with a a courageous group of white and black student athletes at Northeast State Junior College in Alabama in the early 1970s. Recently Bill watched Dan Klores's documentary Black Magic, about basketball players at historically black colleges and universities during the civil rights movement, and he shares his thoughts about the program ...
Fire Ants, the new short story collection by Gerald Duff, is a finalist for the Jesse Jones Award for Best Book of Fiction in 2007, from the Texas Institute of Letters. The winner of the award will be announced April 19 at the organization's annual banquet in Dallas, Texas ...
Anna Olswanger, author of Shlemiel Crooks, spoke as part of a panel discussion on February 21 with the Women's National Book Association, New York Chapter ...