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SoLit Blog and Book Reviews
Lynda LeVan
Aug 31, 20183 min read
Excerpts from Manifest Voices
Below are selected poems from the participants in the Manifest Voices poetry workshop for teens this summer. This year we had 7...
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Eleanor Howard
Jun 1, 20183 min read
Dreams of Falling
I’ve found your favorite summer read. Once you finish it, I declare you’ll want to read it again and then tell all your girlfriends.The...
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Eleanor Howard
Apr 3, 20183 min read
Review of George Singleton's Calloustown
You know when you’re traveling to the beach and the road ahead of you stretches for miles and the exits become less frequent? Then as...
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Eleanor Howard
Feb 23, 20183 min read
Guest Book Review of Fire Sermon
Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro - A Book Review by Eleanor Howard Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro, published in January 2018 by Grove Press, is...
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Emily Daniel
Oct 17, 20172 min read
Book Review: Insurrections
Fellow Southern literature fanatics will probably recall the following quote from Harper Lee’s classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird:...
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Emily Daniel
Oct 5, 20172 min read
Book Review: Zion
I don’t think it’s an overgeneralization to say that our relationships to our families and to our place of births are frequently fraught...
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Jim Minick
Aug 16, 20171 min read
Meet Cicero the Raven
" Meet Cicero the raven in Jim Minick's book Fire is Your Water "So I said OK. Big Deal. It was just a matter of figuring out how to...
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Lynda LeVan
Aug 2, 20172 min read
Book Review: Fire is Your Water
The mountains of Pennsylvania are filled with secrets, family and faith, as is the novel Fire is Your Water by Jim Minick, which takes...
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Emily Daniel
Jul 27, 20172 min read
Book Review: Skandalon
The first thing that struck me about Skandalon, T.R. Hummer’s latest collection of poetry, was the title. I mean, what on earth is a...
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Lynda LeVan
Jul 24, 20171 min read
"Dear Loneliness" by Beth Day
DEAR LONELINESS You are the cold hand on the back of my neck the pulsing breath chained to my heart on days when the world grinds on my...
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Emily Daniel
Jul 20, 20172 min read
Book Review: Land of Enchantment
Art has the ability to transform us. Anyone who has ever watched a thought-provoking film, heard a moving piece of music, or read a...
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Jane Taylor
Jun 23, 20176 min read
Book Review: Mockingbird Songs
“My aunt is Harper Lee.” My children’s existences hinge on those five simple words, for that was the very effective pickup line their...
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Emily Daniel
Jun 12, 20172 min read
Book Review: Before We Were Yours
History is like a cluttered attic, hiding boxes stuffed with dark secrets in forgotten corners. One such secret is the work of Georgia...
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Emily Daniel
Jun 8, 20172 min read
Book Review: That Bright Place
Nothing says “summer reading” like a good thriller, so I was more than happy to dig into That Bright Land, the newest novel from Terry...
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Emily Daniel
Jun 2, 20172 min read
Book Review: The Halo
Admittedly, I have a penchant for the fantastical. I spent most of my formative years reading Harry Potter and Redwall novels, and I...
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Emily Daniel
May 25, 20172 min read
Meet Emily Daniel: Our Summer Intern
Hello all! After a little less than a week of lurking in the shadows, I figured it was probably about time that I introduced myself. So,...
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Lynda LeVan
May 10, 20171 min read
Everything
Verbie and Hugh Prevost Award Winner for Outstanding Poetry from the Young Southern Student Writers Contest Maggie Thal, Grade 11 Signal...
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Lynda LeVan
May 2, 20171 min read
BOOK REVIEW: A QUESTION OF MERCY
A Question of Mercy is Elizabeth Cox’s fifth novel and a rare look at mental-health treatment in 1950’s America. Jess Booker, the...
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David Haynes
Apr 18, 20172 min read
Meet Ann Johnson: Director of Operations Extraordinaire!
Anyone who has spent anytime around So Lit in the past 7 years has probably run into Ann Johnson. Ann is the Director of Operations,...
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