Current Newsletter: Banned Books Week Around the South

Bookstores with reviews in this week's newsletter:

• Leah Jordan, Pearl’s Books in Fayetteville, Arkansas
• Jan Blodgett, Main Street Books in Davidson, North Carolina
• Doron Klemer, Octavia Books in New Orleans, Louisiana
• Megan Bell, Underground Books in Carrollton, Georgia
• Kate Snyder, Plaid Elephant Books in Danville, Kentucky
• Charlie Williams, Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi
• Winter Goldsmith, E. Shaver, Bookseller in Savannah, Georgia
• Adam Fall, Underbrush Books in Rogers, Arkansas
• Kim Brock, Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Lexington, Kentucky
• Elizabeth Walker, Sassafras on Sutton in Black Mountain, North Carolina
• Angie Tally, The Country Bookshop in Southern Pines, North Carolina
• Michelle Weiler, Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh, North Carolina
• Rachel Watkins, Avid Bookshop in Athens, Georgia

Book Buzz Feature: Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White
Horror will always be the genre that feels the most like home to me, largely because it’s the only genre that will let me get away with the sort of stuff I want to write. It’s messy, and visceral, and gut-churning! (Plus, once you include a single horror element in, say, a romance novel, it becomes a horror-romance by definition; horror infects everything it touches, and isn’t that wonderful?) –Andrew Joseph White, Interview, F(r)iction

Decide For Yourself Banned Book Feature:
Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
What Jonathan Evison has done in Lawn Boy is give us an unlikely hero in Mike Muñoz, who tells it like it is and just wants a fair shake. Only twenty-two but already beaten down, Mike knows what it means to go hungry, to share a house with too many people, to never get ahead. Lawn Boy covers issues like racism, immigrant rights, and homophobia in the same breath as dating misadventures, Mike’s fledgling topiary carving artistry, and the pretentious writing MFA candidates produce. It is just this type of book (relatable, funny, entertaining) that could get us talking about social justice.
― Rachel Watkins, Avid Bookshop in Athens, Georgia

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