I am pleased to say that I will be one of the authors represented at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, Tennessee, this coming October.  I’ll be sure to post the details as soon as I can. I’ll be talking about and signing copies of my new book from UNC Press, Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture.

Pop South is the continuation of a blog I began at UNC Press in anticipation of the publication of my book Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture, which focuses on the period from the late nineteenth century through World War II.  Writing that blog has challenged me to think about contemporary representations of the South in the popular media.   Pop South is a space for discussing these representations and trying to understand their meaning for the region today.  It is my intention to have guest bloggers and to encourage a broader discussion.  I’m not sure how long this experiment will last, but I wanted to give it a try.