John Sledge
A Strong Voice
Jesmyn Ward is a fighter. You wouldn’t know it to look at her. Elegant and graceful with a beautiful smile, she is...
An Author's Calling
The last time I interviewed Michael Knight, he was a 20-something winner of the Playboy college fiction contest with both a short...
Tinseltown Storyteller
Fannie Flagg calls me in Flagstaff, Ariz., from Santa Barbara, Calif., two of the most un-Southern places imaginable, ...
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The Test Dive
The H.L. Hunley is famous as the first submarine in history to successfully sink an enemy warship. The attack took place off Charleston...
Winning the Writer’s Race
In the constellation of writers with Mobile connections, Zoe Fishman is probably one of the least known in her hometown. But, ...
A Penman for All Seasons
Sonny Brewer arrives for our interview perched atop a long, black-seated gray scooter with two boxes of books duct-taped behind him. Settled...
A Legendary Penman
I meet Winston Groom at a Downtown Fairhope eatery on a gloomy, gray, wet and chilly day, “good writing weather,...
Literary Charm
To read one of Margaret Cunningham’s three novels is to be carried away on a light and entertaining romp that suggests nothing so...
A True Man of Letters
How do you find the universal in the particular?” asks Mobile Bay-area wordsmith Roy Hoffman while we enjoy a relaxing lunch on the...
Snippets from Southern Pages
From the Foreword by Walter Edgar And it is Sledge’s love of books, his passion for the written word, that...
