Pam Kelley, Reading Life Editor of the Charlotte Observer (oh, that every newspaper still had a ‘reading life editor’), has written a fascinating article on Kathryn Stockett’s best-selling novel The Help. Stockett will speak at Queens University of Charlotte’s 39th annual Friends of the Library Book and Author luncheon on March 9 (sorry, the event is [...]

The latest Writing the New South post is available here.  Thanks to Bob Katrin for submitting his essay “Home in the South.”  We have a wealth of good submissions to choose from, but we always need more. And who knows?  Maybe your Writing the New South submission will one day lead to your inclusion in the [...]

Today’s Washington Post featured a column by Steven Pearlstein, with his take on the new technologies that are transforming publishing and bookselling.  He must be a brave man, if he’s willing to make predictions on where all this change will lead.