Yellowhammer Press

James Lee Burke does not necessarily write “literature.”  His books do not challenge the intellect, nor do they express the ineffable.  They do not probe and prod.  They do not lay bare areas of inquiry that have been heretofore ignored.
Who cares?
His novels are engaging, readable, and present us with a version of the South that [...]

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve added three exceptional artists to our site tonight. Jane Allen Nodine, Elin O’Hara Slavick, and Christopher McNulty join our stable of Southern artists, and we couldn’t be happier.

Jane Allen Nodine, Professor of Art and Director of the Curtis R. Harley Art Gallery at the University of South Carolina [...]

When, I wonder, did it become commonplace with Southern writers to center a body of work in one specific small town?  Wendell Berry has his Port William. Ron Rash had his Cliffside.  I suspect it all started with Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha.  George Singleton has recently given us Forty-Five, South Carolina.
In The Half-Mammals of Dixie, Singleton unpacks [...]