Bohemian Rhapsody
A BBC journalist's love affair with literary New Orleans and the Deep South.
View ArticleInside Tennessee Williams’ Hometown Tribute
A recap of Columbus, Mississippi's annual tribute to the Southern playwright by Carol Marks.
View ArticleFlorida’s Identity Crisis
Author Shannon O'Neil defends her home state's place in the Deep South.
View ArticleLiterary Friday
Our January Twitter chat schedule. Tennessee Williams upon meeting Mother Theresa. Books to look forward to in 2013. Famous authors playing in the snow. Women writers tougher than Hemingway. Holly...
View ArticleThe Voices of Key West
Judy Garrison attends the annual Key West Literary Seminar and gets a rare look inside Tennessee Williams' former home on the island.
View ArticleRemembering Tennessee
Tennessee Williams passed away today in 1983. We've got several ways to remember and pay tribute to him.
View ArticleTracking Tennessee
On the heels of the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival falls the great Southern playwright's birthday today.
View ArticleNight of the Iguana Punch
Inspired by Tennessee Williams’ 1961 play of the same name, this punch was served all over the French Quarter during the 2013 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival.
View ArticleTennessee Williams’ Myrtle Descends on Columbus, Mississippi
"Kingdom of Earth" opened in Tennessee Williams' hometown April 1 and runs through the 13.
View Article10 Things I Learned at the 2013 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival
Highlights from this year's event, held March 20-24 in New Orleans.
View ArticleLiterary Friday, Edition 62
Chatting with "The Guest House" Author Erika Marks. Summer book giveaways. Inside Mary Kay Andrews' beach house. Writers respond to Paula Deen. Wedding photos of famous authors, an exhibit inspired by...
View ArticleTennessee Williams Meets Faulkner in ‘August: Osage County’
Although the film is set in the Midwest, its dysfunctional family could easily be transplanted to the South.
View ArticleAnticipating the 2014 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival
Celebrate the playwright’s birthday March 19-23 in the city he called his “spiritual home.” Dorothy Allison, Laura Lippman, Megan Abbott, Diane Ladd, Bryan Batt, Justin Torres and Ann Hood are
View Article‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ Returns to the New Orleans Stage
On this day in 1955, Tennessee Williams' play "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opened on Broadway.
View ArticleLiterary Friday, Edition 96
Celebrating Tennessee Williams' birthday week, Flannery O'Connor's homemade parade and a prequel to Gone With the Wind, lots of Literary Events and a story about the French lady who opened the first...
View ArticleInside Tennessee Williams’ Key West Birthday Party
The Florida town where the playwright was known simply as "Tom" celebrates his birthday publicly for the first time.
View ArticleTom’s Town
An exhibit of paintings honors Tennessee Williams' artistic mark on Key West, a place where he could just be ''Tom" and not the famous writer.
View ArticleAnna Magnani in The Rose Tattoo
The thing was, she wasn't really pretty. How many movie stars, in the firmament of Hollywood, that tinseled, technicolor world, ...
View ArticleLiterary Friday, (Early) Edition 110
Death meets desire in our interview with Megan Abbott, a Forrest Gump film tour, Missouri plans a Tennessee Williams Festival and new fiction about a man searching for his wife at a garage sale. Happy...
View ArticleLiterary Friday, Mississippi Edition
A roundup of literary, news, events and photos from our Southern Literary Road Trip through Mississippi.
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