August O.Henry

Follow your nose to Red Feather Ranch By Cynthia Adams   •   Photographs by Amy Freeman     “Sweat is nearly as wonderful as the smell of lavender,” claims Dianne Reganess, who presides over Red [...]

Fiction by Lee Smith   •   Illustrations by Matthew Shipley The house I grew up in was one of a row of houses strung along a narrow river bottom like a string of beads. We were not allowed to [...]

William Faulkner invented Yoknapatawpha County as a place for his imagination to live, and every Southern writer knew where it was, even if it wasn’t on any map. Ernest Hemingway loaded his [...]

Even better than reading a book is reading a book with friends By Ross Howell Jr.   •   Photograph by Bert VanderVeen Want to find a local book club? A great resource is the Greensboro Public [...]

By Ashley Walshe The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled. — Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees   August is equal parts ecstasy and agony. [...]

Fiction by Clyde Edgerton Illustrations by David Stanley   1977, Hurt, Tennessee A great big lady goes under the funeral tent in her high heels and sings “How Great Thou Art.” She just belts [...]