Literary Savannah

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Summary: Amazing breadth of sources, genres, view of the city
Review: I can only visit this beautiful, ineffable city once a year, but this wonderful volume of literary gems makes me feel like I live there all year around. There is SO much more to know about the Hostess City of the South than one finds in "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil."

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Summary: Always something new...
Review: I've been to Savannah I don't know how many times; have walked the streets and squares and read the historical markers; have devoured some local history and novels--such as MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL. But, now I don't feel like I knew Savannah at all. I learned so much more in LITERARY SAVANNAH. I highly recommend it for anyone who has visited (and loved, of course) or is planning a visit to Savannah.

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Summary: What are you reading after "Midnight"?
Review: If you are one (as am I) who keeps a journal of his travels, you will know that rereading one's impressions of a place visited brings back the force and pleasure of a favorite city with even more strength than does a photograph. In "Literary Savannah" I have tried to present a sort of travel diary or portait of a city through the words of some of America's finest past and contemporary writers. Students of Southern literature and the armchair traveller alike will, I think, experience the uniqueness of Savannah as never before through reading about it in the words of John Muir, Conrad Aiken, Flannery O'Connor, and Rosemary Daniell. After we vist the Hostess City of the South, I hope you will follow me to "Literary Nashville."

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Summary: WHAT ARE YOU READING AFTER Midnight?
Review: The literary guide to the city America has come to love

THE BESTSELLING BOOK IN SAVANNAH--Literary Savannah

"Delightful."-CREATIVE LOAFING

"Savannah is a...lovely, pastel dream of tight cobbled streets....There are legendary scenes extreme anough to rival any dreamed up by Tennessee Williams."-ROSEMARY DANIELL

"I recall my fleeting instants in Savannah as the taste of a cup charged to the brim."-HENRY JAMES

"I was beguiled by Savannah....In [her] palmier days it had been a cosmopolitan city and its citizens an unusually worldly sort."-JOHN BERENDT

"The stretch of coast from Savannah southward is...the most beautiful place in the world."- MARGARET MITCHELL

The statues of Savannah's Monument Square are silent. The statue of the solemn girl in Bonaventure Cemetery--made famous in John berendt's blockbuster, MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL--cannot speak. Only Savannah's literary monuments can give voice to the rich and diverse history of one of America's greatest cities; one that has for centuries inspired writers worldwide.

LITERARY SAVANNAH is a rich collection of fiction and nonfiction writing by thirty seven writers who are from the city or who have lived there including: Aberjhani, Conrad Aiken, Sherwood Anderson, William Bartram, John Berendt, Emily Pillsbury Burke, Chekilli, Tom Coffey, Lonnie Coleman, Rosemary Daniell, Margaret DeBolt, J. Madison Drake, Olaudah Equino, Chris Fuhrman, Julien Green, Ben Greer, George Washington Harris, Joel Chandler Harris, Harry Hervey, William Dean Howells, Henry James, Ja A. Jahannes, Alexander Lawrence, Julittte Gordon Low, James Alan McPherson, Johnny Mercer, John Muir, Ogden Nash, Flannery O'Connor, James Oglethorpe, William T. Sherman, Mark Steadman, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Thackeray, George Washington, John Wesley, and Richard Henry Wilde.

Other published or forthcoming guides in Hill Street's guides to the literary South include: LITERARY NEW ORLEANS, LITERARY NASHVILLE, LITERARY NORTH CAROLINA, LITERARY ATLANTA, LITERARY LOW COUNTRY, and LITERARY DELTA, and others.

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Summary: Wonderful amalgamation of Savannah - Past and Present!
Review: This book is exceptionally well done and brings all the facets of a Southern Gem - Savannah - together in one book. For anyone who loves the old South, I would strongly suggest this book. The compilation of stories show a rich wonderful city that has had its own share of joy and sorrow. The editor did a wonderful job pulling literary tones together in a unique and complimentary fashion, sounding a true lyrical tribute. My favorite stories are by Conrad Aiken and Flannery O'Connor. The description of Savannah by James Ogelthorpe is astonishing. The piece that stole my heart , however, was written by Aberjhani entitled "Return to Savannah." The voice of the poet moves the words straight to the core of the reader.