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Southern Literature 75 books / 115 members / 104 posts This group is for any reader interested in southern literature, from the classics (Thomas Wolfe, Eudora Welty, Erskine Caldwell, etc.) to the contemporary (Fannie Flagg, Lee Smith, Nicholas Sparks, etc.). Members should share a love of texts that relay the often humble lives of eccentric southerners as they tackle the odds, build character, and find love in the diverse coastal towns, farms, and mountain villages we know as home.
Better than Starbucks… if you like good coffee, great books, sharp wit, and people who read 682 books / 1018 members / 10505 posts Better than Starbucks… if you like good coffee, great books, sharp wit, and people who read Shakespeare, Dickens, Twain, Marquez, Morrison, Joyce, Faulkner, Cather, Kingsolver and a few hundred other really delicious writers, not to impress strangers, but because they love a good read, then please join us. We are not a private group, but the administrators will not resist the urge to delete boring and stupid comments. By the same token, personal attacks on young, slow or otherwise disadvantaged players will not be tolerated. Generally, be nice to other members, but spare not public figures, pop lit superstars, big box stores, politicians and religious leaders. Focus more energy on what is good and even what is great, but feel free to throw a stone when the occasion calls for it. Welcome!
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