Wendy J. Fox has compiled a list of fifteen small press books everybody should have on their summer reading list at Electric Lit. "Small presses,"...
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Springfield News-Leader Features Queen of the Hillbillies
Greta Cross has written about Queen of the Hillbillies: Writings of May Kennedy McCord in the Springfield News-Leader. “McCord’s late grandmother...
Olimpismo Reviewed in the Journal of Olympic Studies
Kevin Witherspoon has reviewed Olimpismo: The Olympic Movement and the Making of Latin America and the Caribbean in the Spring 2023 issue of the...
Lynching and Leisure Reviewed in the Journal of Southern History
Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas by Terry Anne Scott has been reviewed by Simon Balto in The Journal of...
Winthrop Rockefeller by John Kirk Reviewed in the Journal of Southern History
Winthrop Rockefeller: From New Yorker to Arkansawyer, 1912–1956 by John A. Kirk has been reviewed in the April 2023 issue of the Journal of Southern...
Queen of the Hillbillies in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly’s Book Notes
“Brooks Blevins—the dean of Ozark studies—and the University of Arkansas Press have offered another generous helping of regional fare with their...
The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas Reviewed in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly
The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas: How Protestant White Nationalism Came to Rule a State by Kenneth C. Barnes has been reviewed by Thomas R. Pegram...
Queen of the Hillbillies Reviewed in OzarksWatch
OzarksWatch Magazine has reviewed Queen of the Hillbillies: Writings of May Kennedy McCord, edited by Patti McCord and Kristene Sutliff....
The Daughter of Man Reviewed in Publishers Weekly
The Daughter of Man by L. J. Sysko, a finalist for the 2023 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, has been reviewed in Publishers Weekly. “Sysko’s witty...
Matthew E. Stanley Reviews American Atrocity in The Journal of Southern History
Guy Lancaster's American Atrocity: The Types of Violence in Lynching has been reviewed in The Journal of Southern History. “Combining history,...
The Woods Colt Reviewed by John Mort in Down Along the Piney
The writer John Mort has reviewed The Woods Colt on his blog, Down Along the Piney. “As for the stereotypical characters, they rang true to me, much...
Ozarks Country Reviewed in OzarksWatch Magazine
Susan Croce Kelly has reviewed Ozark Country by Otto Ernest Rayburn for OzarksWatch Magazine. Ozark Country is part of the Chronicles of the Ozarks...
Curating the American Past in the Journal of Southern History
Claire Strom has written about Pete Daniel's Curating the American Past: A Memoir of a Quarter Century at the Smithsonian National Museum of...
How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave Reviewed in Poetry
Maya Salameh's collection How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave, winner of the 2022 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize, has been reviewed in Poetry. In How...
Rational Anthem in the Colorado Review
Rational Anthem, a finalist for the 2022 Miller Williams Poetry Prize by Casey Thayer, has been reviewed in the Colorado Review. "Casey Thayer’s...
Queen of the Hillbillies Reviewed in the Missouri Historical Review
“‘Bless your hearts, here I am again! Bad pennies will bob up, you know,’ Ozarks entertainer and folklorist May Kennedy McCord once joked. McCord...
American Atrocity Reviewed in Arkansas Review
American Atrocity: The Types of Violence in Lynching by Guy Lancaster, has been reviewed in Arkansas Review by Brent M. S. Campney. “In his recent...
Abacus of Loss Reviewed in PRISM International
Elmaz Abinader has reviewed Abacus of Loss: A Memoir in Verse by Sholeh Wolpé’ in PRISM International. Loss rumbles through one’s life—reverberates...
The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas Reviewed in the Journal of Southern History
Barclay Key has reviewed Kenneth Barnes's The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas: How Protestant White Nationalism Came to Rule a State in the April...
Shared Secrets Reviewed by the Journal of Southern History
Mary Zaborskis has reviewed Shared Secrets: The Queer World of Newbery Medalist Charles J. Finger by Elizabeth Findley Shores in the May 2022 issue...
Abacus of Loss Reviewed in The Colorado Review
Linda Scheller has reviewed Sholeh Wolpé's Abacus of Loss: A Memoir in Verse in The Colorado Review. "When circumstances change, we change,"...