{Of outlaws and outbuildings}

In This Issue

• Southern Indie Bestsellers
• Good Gossip
• Lady Banks' Commonplace Book
• Okra Picks
• Great Bookstores
• "STARS" Authors
• Special to the Southern List
• Authors Round the South

Special to the Southern List

(Books that appear on the Southern list, but not the national list)

Click on a book to purchase from a great indie bookstore!

Author Readings

Ron Rash, author of Waking at Malaprop's Bookstore & Cafe in Asheville, NC  (10/09/2011)

Wanda Urbanska, author of Builders of Hope: A Social Entrepreneur's Solution at Park Road Books in Charlotte, NC  (October 9 2011)

Ben Johnson, author of Exploring Sacred Space at Charis Books & More in Atlanta, GA  (October 11 2011)

Linda Stout, author of Collective Visioning: How Groups Can Work Together at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, NC  (October 11 2011)

Ron Rash, author of Reception for Waking at Hub City Bookshop in Spartanburg, SC  (October 11 2011)

James Valentine, author of Southern Appalachian Celebration: In Praise of Anc at Malaprop's Bookstore & Cafe in Asheville, NC  (10/11/2011)

Randy Fertel, author of THE GORILLA MAN AND THE EMPRESS OF STEAK: A New Or at Octavia Books in New Orleans, LA  (October 11 2011)

Sharyn McCrumb, author of The Ballad of Tom Dooley at Fiction Addiction in Greenville, SC  (October 11 2011)

Robert Morgan, author of Lions of the West at Alabama Booksmith in Birmingham, AL  (10/11/2011)

Ellen Baker, author of I Gave My Heart To Know This at Country Bookshop in Southern Pines, NC  (October 12 2011)

Robert Morgan, author of Lions of the West at Eagle Eye Book Shop in Atlanta, GA  (10/12/2011)

Soraya Mire, author of Girl With Three Legs at Charis Books & More in Atlanta, GA  (October 12 2011)

Nicholas Sparks, author of The Best of Me at Fiction Addiction in Greenville, SC  (October 12 2011)

Charles Frazier, author of Nightwoods at Alabama Booksmith in Birmingham, AL  (10/12/2011)

Thomas Rain Crowe, author of Every Breath Sings Mountains: The Great Smoky Moun at Malaprop's Bookstore & Cafe in Asheville, NC  (10/12/2011)

John Lane, author of Abandoned Quarry at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva, NC  (October 13 2011)

Markus Zusak, author of The Book Thief at Inkwood Books in Tampa, FL  (October 13 2011)

John Sandford, author of Shockwave at Eagle Eye Book Shop in Atlanta, GA  (10/13/2011)

Norma Watkins, author of The Last Resort at Malaprop's Bookstore & Cafe in Asheville, NC  (10/13/2011)

Kendall Bell, author of Larry Phillips: NASCAR's only 5-time Winston Racin at Park Road Books in Charlotte, NC  (October 13 2011)

Melinda Palacio, author of OCOTILLO DREAMS at Octavia Books in New Orleans, LA  (October 13 2011)

Donna Johnson, author of Holy Ghost Girl at Malaprop's Bookstore & Cafe in Asheville, NC  (10/14/2011)

Tanya Deckla, author of RECLAIMING OUR FOOD: How the Grassroots Food Movem at Country Bookshop in Southern Pines, NC  (October 14 2011)

Richard Peck, author of Secrets of the Sea at Country Bookshop in Southern Pines, NC  (October 14 2011)

Jessie Carty, author of Fat Girl at Barnhill's in Winston-Salem, NC  (10/14/2011)

Beth Webb Hart, author of Sunrise on the Battery at Litchfield Books in Pawleys Island, SC  (October 14 2011)

Norma Watkins, author of The Last Resort at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva, NC  (October 14 2011)

Emily-Sarah Lineback, author of Preserving the Past:Salem Moravians' Receipts & Ri at Old Salem Museums & Gardens in Winston-Salem, NC  (10/15/2011)

Joe Mobley, author of Confederate Generals of North Carolina:Tar Heels i at Old Salem Museums & Gardens in Winston-Salem, NC  (10/15/2011)

Susan Surman, author of Dancing at all the Weddings at Barnhill's in Winston-Salem, NC  (10/15/2011)

Mary Lambeth Moore, author of Sleeping with Patty Hearst at Barnhill's in Winston-Salem, NC  (Oct 15 2011)

Cynthia Brown, author of Folktales and Ghost Stories of North Carolina's Pi at Old Salem Museums & Gardens in Winston-Salem, NC  (10/15/2011)

Cameron Kent, author of The Road to Devotion at Old Salem Museums & Gardens in Winston-Salem, NC  (10/15/2011)

Michael C. Hardy, author of North Carolina in the Civil War at Old Salem Museums & Gardens in Winston-Salem, NC  (10/15/2011)

Amy Spease, author of Ghosts of the Triad:Tales From the Haunted Heart o at Old Salem Museums & Gardens in Winston-Salem, NC  (10/15/2011)

Mathew Fox, author of Christian Mystics: 365 Readings & Meditations at Malaprop's Bookstore & Cafe in Asheville, NC  (10/15/2011)

Faye Tollison, author of To Tell The Truth at Fiction Addiction in Greenville, SC  (October 15 2011)

Allan Wolf, author of The Watch That Ends the Night: Voices from the Tit at Malaprop's Bookstore & Cafe in Asheville, NC  (10/15/2011)

Creighton Lee Calhoun, Jr., author of Old Southern Apples: A Comprehensive History and D at Old Salem Museums & Gardens in Winston-Salem, NC  (10/15/2011)

J. Mark Boliek, author of The Mahogany Door w/CD at Old Salem Museums & Gardens in Winston-Salem, NC  (10/15/2011)

Greg Neri, author of Ghetto Cowboy at Inkwood Books in Tampa, FL  (October 17 2011)

Ellyn Bache, author of The Art of Saying Goodbye at Hub City Bookshop in Spartanburg, SC  (October 17 2011)

Vicki Lane, author of Under the Skin at Fountainhead Bookstore in Hendersonville, NC  (10/18/2011)

Bruce Spizer, author of Beatles for Sale on Parlophone Records at Octavia Books in New Orleans, LA  (October 18 2011)

Vicki Lane, author of Under the Skin at Fountainhead Bookstore in Hendersonville, NC  (10/18/2011)

Alice Sink, author of Wicked Winston-Salem at Barnhill's in Winston-Salem, NC  (10/18/2011)

Arielle Guttman, author of Venus Star Rising at Malaprop's Bookstore & Cafe in Asheville, NC  (10/19/2011)

Alton Brown, author of GOOD EATS 3: The Later Years at Octavia Books in New Orleans, LA  (October 19 2011)

Donna Johnson, author of Holy Ghost Girl at Eagle Eye Book Shop in Atlanta, GA  (October 19 2011)

John Wukovits, author of ADMIRAL "BULL" HALSEY: The Life and Wars of the Na at Country Bookshop in Southern Pines, NC  (October 19 2011)

Fred Chappell, author of Shadow Box at Fountainhead Bookstore in Hendersonville, NC  (10/20/2011)

Amy Spease, author of Ghosts of the Triad: Tales from the Haunted Heart at Barnhill's in Winston-Salem, NC  (October 20 2011)

Caren Goldman, author of Restoring Life's Missing Pieces at Malaprop's Bookstore & Cafe in Asheville, NC  (10/20/2011)

Charles Frazier, author of Nightwoods at Malaprop's Bookstore & Cafe in Asheville, NC  (10/21/2011)

Marty Daniels, author of Mary Chesnut’s Diary at Litchfield Books in Pawleys Island, SC  (October 21 2011)

Authors Round the South
www.authorsroundthesouth.com

Dearest readers,

In the mountains of Western North Carolina the leaves are turning bright red and yellow, splashing the hillsides with color. But here on the coast where her ladyship lives, the days are still warm, the music of the ice cream truck still tinkles through the neighborhood, the morning glories are still in full bloom and her ladyship is still harvesting the last of the peppers from her garden.

This weekend she will be making pepper vinegar, from a recipe found in Mary Randolph's The Virginia Housewife, which was first published in 1824, when Mr. Jefferson was still alive and spending his twilight years in Monticello, dividing his time between creating plans for the campus of the University of Virginia, and testing new varieties of vegetables in his extensive experimental kitchen garden. In fact, the former president had a copy of Mrs. Randolph's book in his library, although the two could not be called friends, as the Randolph household was staunchly Federalist, whilst Mr. Jefferson, of course, was anything but.

Still, this probably did not deter Mr. Jefferson from consulting Mrs. Randolph's cookery book when experimenting with the peppers of his own garden, creating what may have been the first example of the pepper vinegar sauce that is now the foundation of all real barbecue (at least, real if you live east of I-95 in North Carolina.

Mrs. Randoph's Red Pepper Vinegar

Get one dozen pods of pepper when ripe, take out the stems, and cut them in two ; put them in a kettle with three pints of vinegar, boil it away to one quart and strain it through a sieve.  A little of this is excellent in gravy of every kind, and gives a flavor greatly superior to black pepper; it is also very fine when added to each of the various catsups for fish sauce.

Thomas Jefferson's Pepper Sauce

1 gallon cider vinegar
1 1/3 cups crushed red pepper
2 tablespoons black pepper
1/4 cup salt
Mix the ingredients and let stand for at least 4 hours. This one doesn’t even need refrigeration.

Summer, is a state of mind.

Happy, happy reading!

Southern Indie Bestsellers

For the week ending Sunday, October 2, 2011

Columbia, SC - October 7, 2011 - The Southern Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound.org and SIBA, for the week ended Sunday, October 2, 2011. Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance and IndieBound.org.

- A STARS Author | - A SIBA Okra Pick
Titles in red are SIBA Book Award winners and finalists!
Printable versions: Hardcover | Paperback | Children.

Hardcover Fiction

8. Yankee Doodle Dixie
Lisa Patton, Thomas Dunne, $24.99, 9780312556938

10. The Ballad of Tom Dooley
Sharyn McCrumb, Thomas Dunne, $24.99, 9780312558178

Hardcover Nonfiction

Trade Paperback Fiction

Trade Paperback Nonfiction

Mass Market

Children's Illustrated

Children's Interest

Children's Fiction Series Titles

Good Gossip

Literary News & Gossip passed along from the readers, the writers, the reviewers, the resellers, the riff raff, and dutifully repeated here by her ladyship (who falls into the last category).

Flannery O'Connor, cartoonist?

Jena Malone to play Carson McCullers (with her ladyship's apologies to her readers for the reporter's dreadful taste in literature)



Happy 27th anniversary to Quail Ridge Books & Music

"I’ve always thought that Fairhope needed a book festival"
Fairhope, AL's Grand Festival of Art. . .now with books

"Loyola University New Orleans will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Walker Percy's novel, The Moviegoer, by hosting a conference about the Southern writer Oct. 14-16 on its main campus."

BiblioFeast: October is National Reading Group Month, and in celebration the Women's National Book Association - Charlotte will host its second annual BiblioFeast (Because the best place to talk Southern Lit is in an Italian Restaurant.)

"Place, I told my students this summer in our memoir class, is not just bricks and mortar.  It’s the weather."

"Outbuildings in Johnston’s photographs particularly interest me because of their scarcity here in rural NC in 2011. The demise of the outbuilding is a topic for another day."

The Carnegie Survey of Architecture of the South
http://www.deadmule.com/blog/2011/10/a-few-words-on-the-october-2011-photographs/
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2007675754/
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/fbjchron.html

After finishing The Help, all I could think about was fried chicken, beans, and southern desserts. But not pie. No…not pie.
Southern desserts, (but not pie!)

"In 1898, Mr. George Stockton Wills, a graduate both of the University of North Carolina and of Harvard, made an elaborate study of the literature produced in the South before the Civil War. He brought to light a number of literary figures whose very names have been forgotten"
Antebellum Southern Literature--sincere and enthusiastic?

" She was consciously crafting the war as a Greek epic, Daniels said, and the cards represented many of the key characters."
Mary Chestnut, multi-media chronicler of the Civil War

"After the Great Depression, her family was forced to move from a comfortable home in Gloucester, Massachusetts, to a house in Carrboro nicknamed the Shack. She grew up playing with Betty Smith’s children, before Smith became famous for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, when she was poor enough to cry when someone stole her groceries. Athas and her sisters stole money from the church collection box to go to the cinema."
Daphne Athas

"Southern writer Lewis Grizzard got it right when he wrote that newspapers were a bargain because where else can someone find the Major League Baseball standings printed every single day, and for only a quarter."
Anniston Star - Bob Davis A love affair with the news

Lady Banks' Commonplace Book

Noteworthy poetry and prose from her ladyship's bedside reading stack.

Ma's house.

I turned and walked across the broad sopping pasture toward Ma's house, tall supple grass flicking droplets to my knees. The sky had been washed baby blue and blank, and the other cows were munching away at the greenery, rubbing their hides on small trees. Ma's house is a square two-story built plain long ago and still sturdy. It's painted an invented shade of white about halfway around the house to where the paint ran out, just past the south corner and beyond sight from the road, some vertain mix of various whites you have to fetch from town. The rest of the house has been colored with the paler paints left over in the shed, so it's one color house seen driving by, several others standing in the yard, colors that don't rhyme in the eye, but the old wood is well coated. A ladder yet leans there, and a couple of brushes on the botoom rung have stiffened atop a paint can lid.

--Daniel Woodrell, from The Outlaw Album (Little, Brown and Company, 2011)

"I had the benefit of growing up with two brothers both of whom could break my neck." Chest Deep in Southern Literature: A Conversation With Daniel Woodrell

Okra Picks

Great southern books, fresh off the vine! Picked for you with care by Southern Indie Booksellers

Moonlight on Linoleum: A Daughter's Memoir by Terry Helwig
Howard Books, October, 2011

The oldest of six daughters is repeatedly left in charge of the house and her five younger sisters while her mother goes off with strangers for days at a time.  Forced to grow up early, she comes through her childhood a stronger person, the product of both her mother and stepfather.  I loved this story of how, in spite of the hard times, the good times kept the author stable and on a straight course.

- -Beth Carpenter The Country Bookshop, Southern Pines, NC

In the tradition of The Glass Castle comes a debut memoir about a woman's hopeful life despite the sad results of her mother's choices. "Moonlight on Linoleum" is an affecting story of a girl who rose above her circumstances to become an early and faithful caretaker to her five siblings. It is about the power one finds in sisterhood to thrive in a difficult and ever-changing landscape as the girls bond in unconditional love despite constant upheaval and uncertainty. In these pages, Teresa Helwig crafts a moving portrait of a mother she loved completely even as she struggled to understand her.

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Great Bookstores

An Indie Bookstore you should know

Ding Darling Wildlife Society Bookstore in Sanibel Island, FL

One Wildlife Dr.
P.O. Box 565
Sanibel Island, Florida 33957
239-472-1100 ext. 233
Fax 239-472-7803
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http://www.dingdarlingsociety.org/

"Ding" Darling Wildlife Society, a non-profit Friends of the Refuge organization, supports environmental education and services at J.N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge. It depends on membership fees and private contributions and is grateful to those who help fund projects such as the Education Center, internships, interpretative signage, research, student education, and informational literature.

The bookstore operates as part of the Refuge. To date, the Society and bookstore has:

• Spearheaded and financed the new $3.3 million Education Center and exhibits
• Established radio information system for visitors
• Assisted Refuge with plans and pilings for new observation tower
• Purchased computer and other office equipment for Refuge staff
• Built the Education Pavilion on the Cross Dike Trail
• Supports education and biology intern programs
• Operates "Ding" Darling Bookstore
• Organizes and funds the annual "Ding" Darling Days
• Provides the Refuge manager a discretionary fund for emergency use
• Supplies materials to area teachers for field trips
• Provides informational materials for Refuge visitors
• Provides and replaces interpretative signage and outdoor kiosk displays
• Contributes tens of thousands of dollars each year for special Refuge projects
• Funds research projects
• Administers historic traveling exhibits of "Ding" Darling political cartoons
• Represents the refuge system and its budget needs at a national political level

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STARS Authors on Tour

What are "STARS" authors? These are authors listing in the Southern Traveling Authors Registration Service--a directory of authors who live in, or are traveling in the South and are interested in meeting with book clubs, civic groups, classrooms, and readers of all kinds. The STARS directory is brought to you by Southern Indie Booksellers, who want to connect readers with their favorite writers.

Featured: Kendall Bell

I am an award-winning journalist and author with numerous interests. Scuba diving, golf, playing the keyboards and guitar, reading, and, of course, writing, keep me busy. I am a huge football fan and can pretty much enjoy any game. My first two books were anthologies I compiled after 9/11. I later ghost-wrote a book just to get the experience and co-authored a biography to explore that genre. But my true love is writing fiction -- specifically mysteries and suspense. My background as a police beat reporter and later a newspaper editor provides lot of fodder for my fiction. As a member of the National Book Critics Circle, I am able to read lots of books, which helps to hone my own writing skills. I also have a writing workshop for people who want to write a book but don't know how. I am working on my master's degree in military history. I live in SC with my cat, Scooby.

Larry Phillips: NASCAR's Only Five-Time Winston Racing Series Champion
Larry Phillips helped launch the careers of NASCAR drivers Rusty Wallace, Mark Martin, Kenny Wallace and others. His five NASCAR Winston Racing Series championships will never be equalled. And his influence on NASCAR is still being felt today, seven years after his death. This is the compelling story of a man whose need for speed changed not only his life, but also the lives of many others. Mark Martin said, "Larry Phillips is the only driver I'd pay to watch race!" You think you know NASCAR? Unless you've read this book, you're stuck in first gear, Rookie!
Bella Rosa Books | 18.95 | Subject: Biography

Travels from: Sumter, SC
Miles willing to travel: 350
Topics: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Biography, Mystery, Book Reviews
http://www.kendallbell.com/

More STARS Authors:
see the full list online here and find the authors touring in your area here

Kala Ambrose
Charlotte, NC 10/8/2011-10/8/2011
Asheville, NC 10/15/2011-10/15/2011
Raleigh, NC 10/22/2011-10/22/2011
Durham, NC 10/27/2011-10/27/2011
Chapel Hill, NC 10/28/2011-10/28/2011

Ellyn Bache
Pawleys Island, SC 11/4/2011-11/4/2011
Wilmington, NC 11/5/2011-11/10/2011
Asheville, NC 11/19/2011-11/20/2011

Maggie Bishop
John C. Campbell Folk School, GA 10/30/2011-11/5/2011

Nancy B. Brewer
Mooresville, NC 10/18/2011-10/18/2011

Nancy Cohen
Delray Beach, FL 10/29/2011-10/29/2011

Elizabeth O. Dulemba
Brasstown, NC 12/2/2011-12/4/2011

Mark Hainds
Ponchatoula, LA 10/29/2011-10/30/2011
Tallahasee, FL 11/1/2011-11/4/2011
Birmingham, AL 12/3/2011-12/6/2011

Jennie Helderman
Fairhope, AL 10/8/2011-10/9/2011
Orlando, FL 10/20/2011-10/23/2011
Sterling, VA 10/25/2011-10/29/2011
Atlanta, GA 11/19/2011-11/19/2011

Lori K. Lee
Jacksonville, NC 1/1/2011-12/30/2011

Nancy Naigle
Charlottesville, VA 10/15/2011-10/15/2011
Emporia, VA 12/5/2011-12/5/2011
Emporia, VA 12/8/2011-12/8/2011

Valerie Nieman
Charlotte, NC 10/10/2011-10/10/2011
Fairmont, WV 10/13/2011-10/13/2011
Morgantown, WV 10/14/2011-10/14/2011
Weirton, WV 10/15/2011-10/15/2011
Philippi, WV 10/17/2011-10/17/2011
Charleston, WV 10/18/2011-10/18/2011
Charlotte, NC 10/22/2011-10/22/2011
Charlottesville, VA 10/29/2011-10/30/2011
Hillsborough, NC 11/16/2011-11/16/2011

Lisa Patton
Fairhope, AL 10/5/2011-10/9/2011
Montgomery, AL 10/13/2009-10/13/2011
Columbia, TN 10/20/2011-10/20/2011
Collierville, TN 11/1/2011-11/1/2011
Blytheville, AR 11/1/2011-11/1/2011
Greenwood, MS 11/9/2011-11/9/2011
Jackson, MS 11/10/2009-11/10/2011
Tupelo, MS 11/11/2011-11/11/2011
Oxford, MS 11/17/2011-11/17/2011

Melissa Peagler
Charlotte, NC 10/5/2011-10/7/2011
Atlanta, GA 10/12/2011-10/14/2011
Lancaster, SC 11/23/2011-11/27/2011
Spartanburg, SC 11/23/2011-11/27/2011
Chester, SC 11/23/2011-11/27/2011
Columbia, SC 11/25/2011-11/27/2011
Ashville, NC 11/26/2011-11/27/2011

Norma Watkins
Highlands, NC 10/10/2011-10/14/2011
Miami, FL 11/1/2011-11/30/2011

Tamra Wilson
Gaston County, NC 10/27/2011-10/29/2011