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Last weekend, I traded the snowy skies
of New England for the hum of blues along Beale Street in Memphis.
I went down to Oxford, Mississippi and for one night, I heard peep
frogs! Peep frogs! As soon as I heard them, the
cold in my bones began to warm, and I sighed--ah! Spring is on its way--at least in Memphis.
I'm back in New England now, (it's snowing) but the sound of those
peep frogs is still with me.
My mom says that peep frogs will come out three
times before them come out to stay. So, if you live in Tennessee,
(or there abouts) you must let me know when the peep frogs are out to
stay.
Some
suggested reading reflects my longing for Spring....
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Zora Neale Hurston's
Their Eyes Were Watching God
On March 6, Oprah
Winfrey, will present a film on network television, based on
Zora Neale Hurston's
masterpiece, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Southern
Literary Review has long promoted the literary classic, and is
thrilled to see such attention paid to Hurston's work.
Their Eyes Were Watching God depicts the life of a beautiful
black woman's quest for sexual, sensual, and spiritual fulfillment
in the 1920's despite society's attempts to keep her down.
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New On the Site!
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State-of-the-Month ~~ Tennessee
Tennessee was home to some of the greatest early southern literary
figures and is home to Vanderbilt University--perhaps the most
influential university for southern literature's development.
Home also to Pulitzer Prize winning author,
Peter Taylor,
who won the Pulitzer for
Summons to Memphis. Professor
John
Crowe Ransom who taught young writes like
Robert Penn Warren and
Peter Taylor was born and raised in the great state of Tennessee,
and Shelby Foote has called Memphis home for many years.
See SLR's Tennessee page.
Did you
know?
Tennessee has produced
three U.S. presidents: Andrew Jackson, 1829-37; James K. Polk, 1845-49;
and
Andrew Johnson, 1865-69.
The worst earthquake in
American history occurred in the winter of 1811-12 in northwestern
Tennessee.
The Alex Haley boyhood
home in Henning is the first state-owned historic site devoted to
African Americans in Tennessee.
Tennessee's "Lost Sea" in
Sweetwater is the largest underground lake in the U.S.
In 1933, the mockingbird
was selected as the state bird because it is considered one of the
finest singers among North American birds
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Editor’s
Reading for Winter's End and Spring's Begin!
Congratulations to Lorie Watkins
Fulton! She won Cynthia Shearer's new book, Celestial Jukebox!
See our interview with Thomason on
her
debut novel!
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Tennessee
Literature
& Style
1987 Pulizer Prize winner
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