When she gets rattled, the South really comes out. Once when Daddy tried to cancel our country club membership because he said the dues were too high, she went from zero to Atlanta burning in...

I’m from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.

Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.

The ranks opened covertly to avoid the corpse. The invulnerable dead man forced a way for himself. The youth looked keenly at the ashen face. The wind raised the tawny beard. It moved as if...