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Literary criticism The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison: Speaking the Unspeakable After Southern Modernism: Fiction of the Contemporary South All Stories Are True: History, Myth, and Trauma in the Work of John Edgar Wideman Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium Ash of Stars: On the Writing of Samuel R. Delany At Home Abroad: Mark Twain in Australasia Barry Hannah: Postmodern Romantic The Black Cultural Front: Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth Century African American Literature Breaking the Rule of Cool: Interviewing and Reading Women Beat Writers Bret Harte: Prince and Pauper Brother-Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation The Caribbean Novel since 1945: Cultural Practice, Form, and the Nation-State Charles Johnson: The Novelist as Philosopher Children of the Dark House: Text and Context in Faulkner Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination: Innocence by Association Claiming the Heritage: African-American Women Novelists and History Conversations with David Foster Wallace Conversations with Dorothy Allison Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara Conversations with William Maxwell A Cormac McCarthy Companion: The Border Trilogy The Correspondence of Flannery O'Connor and the Brainard Cheneys Cultural Orphans in America The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs Dangerous Freedom: Fusion and Fragmentation in Toni Morrison's Novels Desegregating Desire: Race and Sexuality in Cold War American Literature Domesticity with a Difference: The Nonfiction of Catharine Beecher, Sarah J. Hale, Fanny Fern, and Margaret Fuller Doubled Plots: Romance and History The Dragon's Blood: Feminist Intertextuality in Eudora Welty's 'The Golden Apples' DuBose Heyward: A Charleston Gentleman and the World of Porgy and Bess Empire and Slavery in American Literature, 1820-1865 Erskine Caldwell Reconsidered Eudora Welty and Surrealism Fabulous Provinces Faulkner and Gender Faulkner and His Contemporaries Faulkner and Humor Faulkner and Idealism: Perspectives from Paris Faulkner and Ideology Faulkner and Material Culture Faulkner and Popular Culture Faulkner and Postmodernism Faulkner and Psychology Faulkner and Race Faulkner and Religion Faulkner and the Artist Faulkner and the Craft of Fiction Faulkner and the Ecology of the South Faulkner and the Natural World Faulkner and the Short Story Faulkner and the Southern Renaissance Faulkner and War Faulkner and Welty and the Southern Literary Tradition Faulkner and Whiteness Faulkner and Women Faulkner at 100: Retrospect and Prospect Faulkner at West Point A Faulkner Chronology Faulkner in America Faulkner in the Twenty-First Century Faulkner on the Color Line: The Later Novels Faulkner's Inheritance Faulkner: A Biography Faulkner: Masks and Metaphors Faulkner's Rowan Oak Faulkner's Sexualities Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir: Smith, Glasgow, Welty, Hellman, Porter, and Hurston Feminism, the Left, and Postwar Literary Culture Feminist Alternatives: Irony and Fantasy in the Contemporary Novel by Women Fighting and Writing the Vietnam War Finding a Way Home: A Critical Assessment of Walter Mosley's Fiction Flannery O' Connor: An Introduction Flannery O'Connor's Religion of the Grotesque Friendship and Sympathy: Communities of Southern Women Writers Gender and the Poetics of Excess: Moments of Brocade Gertrude Stein and Richard Wright: The Poetics and Politics of Modernism Hawthorne's Narrative Strategies The Heart of the Story: Eudora Welty's Short Fiction Inventing Southern Literature Invisible Suburbs: Recovering Protest Fiction in the 1950s United States The Jim Dilemma: Reading Race in Huckleberry Finn Larry Brown and the Blue-Collar South Lavish Self-Divisions: The Novels of Joyce Carol Oates Lynda Barry: Girlhood through the Looking Glass The Lytle-Tate Letters: The Correspondence of Andrew Lytle and Allen Tate Margaret Atwood's Fairy-Tale Sexual Politics A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader Models of Misrepresentation: On the Fiction of E. L. Doctorow Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a, and Asian American Fictions Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature between the Wars: A New Pandora's Box On William Faulkner The Other Carl Sandburg The Other World of Richard Wright: Perspectives on His Haiku Outside the Southern Myth Passing in the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty among Artists of the Thirties Patrick Chamoiseau: A Critical Introduction Personal Souths Interviews from the Southern Quarterly Perspectives on Barry Hannah Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy Perspectives on Harry Crews Perspectives on Percival Everett Perspectives on Richard Ford Perspectives on Wole Soyinka: Freedom and Complexity The Poetics of American Song Lyrics Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Literature The Postwar African American Novel: Protest and Discontent, 1945-1950 The Properties of Violence: Claims to Ownership in Representations of Lynching Reading Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom! Reading Faulkner: Collected Stories Reading Faulkner: Light in August Reading Faulkner: Sanctuary Reading Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury Reading Faulkner: The Unvanquished Realism for the Masses: Aesthetics, Popular Front Pluralism, and U.S. Culture, 1935-1947 Reclaiming Community in Contemporary African American Fiction Redressing the Balance: American Women's Literary Humor from Colonial Times to the 1980s Resistance and Reformation in Nineteenth-Century African-American Literature: Brown, Wilson, Jacobs, Delany, Douglass, and Harper Revising the Blueprint: Ann Petry and the Literary Left Richard Wright's Travel Writings: New Reflections Richard Wright: Books and Writers Robbing the Mother: Women in Faulkner Shadow and Shelter: The Swamp in Southern Culture Shadowing Ralph Ellison Shelby Foote: A Writer's Life Shelby Foote: Novelist and Historian The South and Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha: The Actual and the Apocryphal Speaking of the Short Story: Interviews with Contemporary Writers Still Following Percy Stories of Oprah: The Oprahfication of American Culture Tennessee Williams and the South Tennessee Williams and the South A Thief of Peirce: The Letters of Kenneth Laine Ketner and Walker Percy Tillie Olsen and a Feminist Spiritual Vision To Make a New Race: Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance The Trickster Comes West: Pan-African Influence in Early Black Diasporan Narratives Twain's Brand: Humor in Contemporary American Culture Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature Unflinching Gaze: Morrison and Faulkner Re-Envisioned Unruly Tongue: Identity and Voice in American Women's Writing, 1850-1930 Unveiling Kate Chopin Voice of a Native Son: The Poetics of Richard Wright Walker Percy: A Southern Wayfarer Warring Fictions: Cultural Politics and the Vietnam War Narrative We Go Pogo: Walt Kelly, Politics, and American Satire A Web of Relationship: Women in the Short Fiction of Mary Wilkins Freeman The Welty Collection: A Guide to the Eudora Welty Manuscripts and Documents at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Welty: A Life in Literature What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction Whiteness in the Novels of Charles W. Chesnutt The Works of the Gawain-Poet The World of Richard Wright A Writer's Eye: Collected Book Reviews The Years of Our Friendship: Robert Lowell and Allen Tate	Download the BOOKFRIENDS newsletter BOOKFRIENDS JUKE JOINT Membership Party Join us on Facebook See our authors READ OUR BLOG On the Horizon: Scotty and Elvis When Elvis Presley first showed up at Sam Phillips’s Memphis-based Sun Records studio, he was a shy teenager in search of a sound. Phillips invited a local guitarist named Scotty Moore to stand in. Scotty listened carefully to the young singer and immediately realized that Elvis had something special. Along with bass player Bill Black, the trio recorded an old blues number called “That’s All (read more...)

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