Erin Z. Bass
Publisher and Editor at Deep South Magazine
An online magazine covering life in the Deep South, tweeted by Erin Z. Bass.
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2 weeks ago |
deepsouthmag.com | Erin Z. Bass
Reading Richmond Poetry Fest founder Rosa Castellano’s debut collection is described as “encountering a contemporary Kindred-in-verse.” Transported from the poet’s Florida childhood—raised in a trailer park called Camelot by interracial parents—into the fictionalized lives of Black sisters surviving Georgia in the years after emancipation, Castellano raises a question central to her identity: what might it be like to pass as one or the other–as Black, or as white.
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1 month ago |
deepsouthmag.com | Erin Z. Bass
Lafayette, Louisiana, resident and Managing Editor of Country Roads Magazine Jordan LaHaye Fontenot’s debut true crime novel Home of the Happy: A Murder on the Cajun Prairie hit bookstores on April 1. She launched to a sold-out crowd at Cavalier House Books in Lafayette, visited Lemuria Books in Jackson, Mississippi, earlier this week and has more events scheduled throughout Louisiana through June 12.
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1 month ago |
deepsouthmag.com | Erin Z. Bass
Georgia author Emily Carpenter‘s new book Gothictown had me at “echoes of Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery” from its back cover description. The 1948 short story by the female horror master calls to mind secrets in a small town and an encroaching sense of dread. Carpenter’s setting of the fictional town of Juliana, Georgia, is all that and more. Carpenter remembers the first time she ready “The Lottery” in high school.
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1 month ago |
deepsouthmag.com | Erin Z. Bass |Haley Roberts
In her new book The Modern Mountain Cookbook: A Plant-Based Celebration of Appalachia, Appalachian vegan and author Jan A. Brandenburg embraces her grandmother’s fearless approach to cooking while staying true to her own beliefs to create a cookbook that captures the flavor and comfort that came with every bite of her favorites from back home.
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2 months ago |
deepsouthmag.com | Erin Z. Bass
In the first episode of its new series “GATHERINGS,” Vice spends some time at various courir de Mardi Gras celebrations across South Louisiana. Described as exploring the communities and events that give people a sense of belonging in an increasingly isolating world, the series depicts Mardi Gras as an important tradition that is becoming more and more inclusive. Host and Southern native Jackson Garrett gets down in the trenches in Eunice and Church Point at some decades-old courirs.
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