Arthur Alter, patriarch of the Alter family, stopped to examine dandelions blooming through his driveway. It was his first trip home in weeks, and readers...

Tom Bennitt, a 2013 English MFA graduate from Ole Miss, will read from and sign copies of his first novel, “Burning Under,” at 5 p.m. Wednesday at...

The daughter of civil rights reporter John Herbers visited the Overby Center for Journalism and Southern Politics to discuss her late father’s memoir,...

Have you ever wondered what life would be like if everyone you’ve ever had a crush on found out on the same day? Well, the new Netflix movie, “To All...

Forestry and fiction fans will find common ground at 5 p.m. on Aug. 20 at Off Square Books as award-winning writer James McLaughlin discusses his debut...

Through the eyes of the young Scout Finch, an audience reads about society, hatred, prejudice in the criminal justice system and the American South in...

Writing a novel in a month is a feat for anyone, but busy college life can make it that much harder. Rolling through the aspiring novelist’s mind, it’s...

Young adult author Tonya Kuper’s second book in the young adult Schrodinger’s Consortium series was released on July 3, and the sequel, “Enigma,”...

  Photo courtesy: Amazon.com An American professor teaching in Bulgaria meets a young hustler named Mitko in the public bathrooms beneath Sofia’s...

Katy Simpson Smith seems like the best kind of optimist. Driven from a young age by a love of the South and her people, she initially sought a career in history, attending Mount Holyoke College, earning a PhD in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and going on to pen the well-received, “We Have Raised All of You: Motherhood in the South 1750-1835.” Smith...