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Wearing our Booker tees to meet Cory Booker. Makes us so happy! Keep fighting the good fight in Tennessee, y’all. Thank you, @reedhamptontn. Repost from @reedhamptontn • Thank you so much @corybooker for coming to talk to us in Nashville today! Thank you also for your kind words and excellent answer to my question! Herr Greer loved your video! @marshablackburn @billhagertytn @repchuck: Take notes this is how to do your job!

It’s here, it’s here! Today, we began mailing your copies of ALLEGHANIA. 🏡📔📦🚚💨 If you haven’t ordered your copy yet … the link is in the image above. ALLEGHANIA: Set against the gorgeous ancient landscape of the Allegheny Mountains, photographer Michael O. Snyder ( @michaelosnyder ) presents a collection of portraits from West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. From farmers and herbalists, to skateboarders and train hoppers, Buddhist monks to Christian pastors, this is a love letter to an often overlooked part of Appalachia - a place where tradition and transformation intertwine. A dispatch from the heart of America, ALLEGHANIA asks us to reconsider our image of a region and its people.Through a rich tapestry of voices and striking photography, Snyder’s new body of work brings Central Appalachia’s grit, grace, and heart clearly into view. Michael O. Snyder’s ALLEGHANIA is beautiful. We begin shipping today! • 9 x 10.25’’ • Hardcover • 176 Pages

See you soon, Santa Fe International Literary Festival! 📚🌵🏜️ @bittersoutherner & @bs_publishing travels #Repost from @sfinternationallitfest • The countdown is on—only one week until the Santa Fe International Literary Festival begins! 🌟 ⁠ ⁠ The Festival is a collaborative event where world-class authors and passionate readers listen, talk, and think freely about their interests, values, and experiences, a space where preconceived notions are challenged and common ground is shared. ⁠ ⁠ #LiteratureLiftsUs #SFILF2025 #ReadBoundlessly2025 #SFILFAuthors2025 #sfinternationallitfest25

One of our favorites in one of our favorites. Thank you thank you, Hodding Carter. 💥💥💥 Repost from @hoddingcarter • Worst, dumbest waste-of-time Bill passed the House today—what about food prices, Medicaid, being in charge of government spending instead of handing over all your power to the executive branch?—thanks to the ever-embarrassing Marjorie Taylor Greene. Long live the Gulf of Mexico!

In Birmingham, litter isn’t just an eyesore, it’s a symbol of deeper neglect and a challenge to community pride. In District One, where trash dumping has rapidly increased, Councilor Clinton Woods is helping lead the charge with Power of One, a grassroots initiative focused on cleaning up the district, educating residents, and protecting the environment. Neighbors across the city are standing up for the place they call home and refusing to let neglect define their community. This isn’t just a story about trash. It’s a story about resilience, pride, and the folks working hard to preserve Birmingham’s beauty. This story is told in partnership with @unumfund. 🔗 Link in bio 🧑🏾‍🦱@councilorwoods 📝 Kamille D. Whittaker 📸 @wesfrazer”

Still pinching myself a little: The Bitter Southerner just received three James Beard Award nominations for 2025! When I joined this team, I knew I was walking into something special - but getting to see why it’s special unfold day after day has truly been one of the most rewarding experiences of my career. These stories come from a place of care, curiosity, and deep respect for the South in all its complexity, and I’m so proud to work alongside the people who make that happen, and put their hearts into every word and image. Congratulations, Team Bitter Southerner! #TheBitterSoutherner #BetterSouthBetterWorld

We ♥️ you, Wayne White. Repost from @waynewhiteart • Puppet Show for @bittersoutherner 2021.

HAPPY DAY here at @bittersoutherner world headquarters. Three @beardfoundation award nominations just rolled in and we are filled with gratitude and love for our team and contributors and YOU our readers. Here are the categories: 1) Food Coverage in a General Interest Publication This award recognizes excellence in food and/or drink writing, reporting, and presentation in a general interest site or print publication. Judges evaluate each entry for overall breadth and depth of coverage. * The Bitter Southerner The New Yorker Texas Monthly 2) Profile This award recognizes a single distinctive piece that brings to life the world of a chef, restaurateur, grower, producer, or other figure or group of significance to food and/or drink. * “Black Earth” Christina Cooke The Bitter Southerner “The Expanding Table: Honoring Palestinian Culinary Tradition in Arkansas” Jordan P. Hickey Longreads “Padma Lakshmi Walks Into a Bar” Helen Rosner The New Yorker 3) MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award This award recognizes a single article of exceptional literary merit on the subject of food and/or drink published in any medium. “The City that Rice Built” Jeff Gordinier and George McCalman Food & Wine * “Clam South” Caroline Hatchett The Bitter Southerner “The Food That Makes You Gay” Jaya Saxena 🥂🥂🥂

In today’s haunting and powerful story from Issue No. 10, writer Tom Lee ( @orioleintn ) delves into the buried truths of The Field, an unmarked burial ground in Chattanooga where, for more than a century, the remains of countless Black Tennesseans were interred and forgotten. Through rigorous investigation and rich storytelling, Lee brings this hidden past into the light, raising urgent questions about memory, justice, and the narratives we choose to preserve. 📝 @orioleintn 📸 @megan_ledbetter_photos 🔗 to read online in profile 🔗 to order issue no. 10 in post

Rachel ( @maddowshow ) & Stephen ( @colbertlateshow ) are two consistently strong voices right now. Thank you, both. 🙏🏽🙏🏽 Repost from @colbertlateshow • Rachel Maddow sheds light on the American people who are standing up against the Trump administration’s attempt at an authoritarian regime. #Colbert #RachelMaddow

A BIG HAPPY Congratulations to PERCIVAL EVERETT on his Pulitzer Prize for Fiction win … for ‘JAMES.’ Last summer, Everett’s book was one of our top favorites on our Summer Reading Roundup list. Repost from @bittersoutherner • James By Percival Everett A SUMMER READING ROUNDUP 2024 selection. ( 3 of 25 ) Language is power, helping us make meaning and even hide or protest in plain sight. Those who possess language can travel freely. Wresting a book of knowledge away from others can be deadly. In James, Percival Everett boldly reimagines The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the character Jim’s perspective. In this telling, enslaved people are literate and speak their minds in private but dumb down or silence their conversations when white folks are present. The creative premise of 19th-century code-switching does not overshadow the storytelling; I quickly became wholly immersed, marveling at absurd situations one moment, then despairing when I arrived at a passage in the book about a fallen traveler. In 2023, Percival Everett’s book Erasure was adapted into the Oscar-winning film American Fiction, introducing him to a broader audience. Link to our summer reading list in profile! SUMMER READING ROUNDUP 2024 Compiled by @alisonlawatl 📚♥️

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The 🗞️ is scary. The 🌍 is scary. And so many of us really want to talk with our young children about what’s happening. One possible way is through story telling. With the cards in this deck, create stories with your littles ( or your teenagers or your grown kids ) and see what comes up! Conversation will happen… Link to order our TELL ME A STORY deck is in the image above.

TYLER MITCHELL ( @tylersphotos ) from the ATL, we are so wow’d by your huge part in this year’s Met Gala. ( Also, we would really love to work with you! ) #Repost from @voguemagazine • Dressed in @walesbonner, you cannot fail. At the 2025 #MetGala, photographer @tylersphotos referenced one of the looks he shot for Vogue’s suiting portfolio in this year’s May issue. Tap the link in bio to catch up on the best red carpet moments.

Awwwwww yeah. Thank you, @redefiningshe !! 🙏🏽🩵 #Repost from @redefiningshe • #equalityforall #equalitymatters #goodtroublemakers #bittersoutherner #bittersouthernerflags

SHAME is right. Thank you, @raydipietro for covering Nashville in these heartbreaking and enraging times. Repost from @raydipietro • In a heart wrenching scene, ICE escorts a bus as it departs with detainees arrested early this morning in a joint operation with the Tennessee Highway Patrol on Nolensville Road in South Nashville, a heavily Hispanic area, as family members of the detainees and activists emotionally protest. Department of Homeland Security building. 501 Brick Church Park Drive. Nashville, TN. 5/4/25. 3:23pm.