Sonny Brewer: 10 books

Cormac — a dark-red Golden Retriever who has always been afraid of thunderstorms and lightning flashes — runs away one stormy night while his master is away. So begins a strange adventure that lands Cormac in the back of a red pickup truck driven by a mysterious woman, takes him to a series of dog...

P. J. ORourke said, “Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words Write what you know is confined to a labor camp… The blind guy with the funny little harp who composed The Iliad, how much combat do you think he saw?” Like ORourke, William Faulkner...

New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year writing life. In...

This collection of thirty Southern writers gathers some of the finest authors in the country — with stories, essays, and a poem. Demonstrating a range of styles, topics, and themes these stories display each writers craftsmanship and talent and together form a testament to the grand literary tradition of the South.

Like the parlor chorus of conversation at a Southern family reunion, the voices in the 'Stories from the Blue Moon Café II' anthology are loud, or they are soft. They are crazy, but not asked to be quiet: “Go ahead, Uncle Ralph, where was it they landed?” And no one laughs. Or they do, and somebody...

The magnificent Ghosthead Oak has stood watch over coastal Alabamas mysterious backwater bays and slow-running rivers, where bull alligators rumble the nerves of lesser creatures and every living thing has the capacity to kill, for five hundred years. Some say the fabled giant tree was once a knee-high...

“The more you transform your life from the material to the spiritual domain, the less you become afraid of death.” Leo Tolstoy spoke these words, and they became Henry Stuart’s raison d’etre. The Poet of Tolstoy Park is the unforgettable novel based on the true story of Henry Stuart’s life,...

Following the success of 'Stories from the Blue Moon Café' volumes I, II, and III, we are pleased to serve up another hearty helping of Southern writing in this fourth edition. Offering the best in contemporary Southern fiction, from a tale inspired by a sculpture to another written by a popular Nashville...

Proving that the waters of Southern talent run deep and that traditions are meant to be both honored and stood on their ear, the third volume of 'Stories from the Blue Moon Café' presents the most talented practitioners of Southern writing. Readers need not ever have set foot south of the Mason-Dixon...

From the Editor: An old friend of mine once said to me, “You oughta go ahead and get the graveyard people to cut your stone now. Have em write on there, If this is anything like his life, he wont be here long. ”Ive thought a dozen times to get a paperweight-size version of that very epitaph. Ill...