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March 25, 2018

VIDEO: It's Flannery O'Connor's Birthday--Listen to Her Talk About Southern 'Grotesque' Literature

March 25, 2018/ Adam Cohen
VIDEO: It's Flannery O'Connor's Birthday--Listen to Her Talk About Southern 'Grotesque' Literature

Southern Writers Write About Freaks, She Says, Because they are Still Able To Recognize Them

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Flannery O'Connor, Southern Literature, Southern Grotesque
April 28, 2017

AUDIO: It's Harper Lee's Birthday--Listen to Her Only Recorded 'Mockingbird' Interview

April 28, 2017/ Adam Cohen
AUDIO: It's Harper Lee's Birthday--Listen to Her Only Recorded 'Mockingbird' Interview

Lee Recalls Her "Sheer Numbness" at To Kill a Mockingbird's Extraordinary Success

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April 28, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Southern Literature, Craft of Writing
October 21, 2016

Q&A: Robert Hicks on His Novel About a Murder in the Reconstruction-Era South

October 21, 2016/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: Robert Hicks on His Novel About a Murder in the Reconstruction-Era South

A Freed Slave and Midwife Vows to Hunt Down Her Son's Killer

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October 21, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Southern Literature, Civil War, Reconstruction, Tennessee, African-American Literature
July 11, 2016

5 HOT BOOKS: New Biographies of Helen Gurley Brown and Robert Kennedy and More

July 11, 2016/ Adam Cohen
5 HOT BOOKS: New Biographies of Helen Gurley Brown and Robert Kennedy and More

And a Novel About a Hurricane Katrina Refugee in Search of Redemption

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July 11, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Helen Gurley Brown, Robert Kennedy, Southern Literature, New Orleans
March 25, 2016

AUDIO: Today is Flannery O'Connor's Birthday -- Listen to Her Talking About the Grotesque in Southern Literature

March 25, 2016/ Adam Cohen
AUDIO: Today is Flannery O'Connor's Birthday -- Listen to Her Talking About the Grotesque in Southern Literature

She explains what she said when she was asked why Southern writers write so much about freaks

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March 25, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Southern Literature, Authors on Writing, Southern Grotesque, Audio
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