South – Page 2 – Reading Along

All Over but the Shoutin’ – Rick Bragg

ByMichael March 23, 2020September 6, 2022

Haunting, harrowing, moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly destined for either the cotton mills or the penitentiary, and instead became a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times. Author Rick Bragg (1959) is an American journalist and…

Fiction

All Aunt Hagar’s Children – Edward P. Jones

ByMichael March 21, 2020

An unflinching eye to the men, women, and children caught between the old ways of the South and the temptations that await them in the city, people who in Jones’s masterful hands emerge as fully human and morally complex. With the legacy of slavery just a stone’s throw behind them and the future uncertain.