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Happy New Year. Southern Literary Review wishes you and yours all the best in 2007.  We are looking forward to the new books by new authors and new books by our favorite authors that have been entertaining and educating us for years.

Southern Literary Review takes great pride in the writers the South has produced and the masterpieces that would never have been were it not for the life and history of the American South, but there is a new American South. A rising of the South as has always been predicted and we hope to see more writing that reflects the lifestyles and views of a modern, and intelligent southern culture, so in 2007, we will make it our mission to tell you when a new book is truly new and when the storyline is very familiar (you may prefer the familiar). We plan, however, to work even more diligently to promote original storylines, fresh ideas and new authors you should be reading!

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New On the Site!        

• Interview with Southern writer, Steve Sherrill
   

• Review of Elizabeth Lawrence's A Garden of One's Own.  Review by Dianne Foster
   

• Review of The Invented Life of Kitty Duncan Review by Carrol Wolverton
   

• Profile of Larry Brown
   

• New Selections on Culture and Cuisine, and in the Southern Breeze Bookstore
   

Travel Fiction
Go Places!

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State-of-the-Month ~
South Carolina

South Carolina is home to great writers like Pat Conroy and William Price Fox, and is also the source of many of our southern traditions and styles. As the eighth state to join the union, South Carolina has a rich history of southern culture as well as a history of influencing the culture and pastimes of all of the United States.

Did you know? 

• The first shots of the Civil War were fired in Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861.
   

• Golf was first played in the U.S. in Charleston, S.C. The South Carolina Golf Club was formed in 1786 and was the first golf club in the United States.

• Yellow jessamine, the state flower, is a climbing vine that grows wild on trees and fences. Its sweet-smelling yellow flowers bloom early in the spring.
   

• South Carolina appointed the first African-American Associate Justice of a state supreme court - J.J. Wright, February 2, 1870.
   

• The Nation's only commercial tea farm, American Classic Tea, is located on Wadmalaw Island near Charleston.

 See SLR's South Carolina page.

Maryland's time is coming!

Editor’s Picks

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Literature & Lifestyles of South Carolina

South Carolina
Literature
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