Southern Lit: Pickett's Charge

Charles McNair’s first novel, Land O’ Goshen, was published in 1994 and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.  McNair spent nearly two decades writing and rewriting his next book, Pickett’s Charge. Nominated for a 2014 Townsend Prize for...

Flag Dogs Boggs

WASHINGTON — One of President Barack Obama’s most beleaguered judicial nominees, Michael Boggs, finally got his Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday. And it wasn’t pretty. One by one, for nearly two hours, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee laid into Boggs...

News from Around the South 4/28 – 5/5

VIRGINIA: Archaeologists Map Civil War Cemetery LYNCHBURG, Va. — Four archaeologists stood among a 45-foot by 10-foot trench within “Yankee Square” at Old City Cemetery in Lynchburg on Sunday afternoon. Using brooms and shovels, they uncovered a patchwork of...

In Defense of Southern Charm

Southern Charm has been a target of public criticism and anger in Charleston before it even aired a single episode on Bravo. Although a good amount of locals say the show doesn’t matter to them or they refuse to watch, it is easy to find fresh coverage with either a...