Mucklewain is a Literate Southern Rock Festival. WHAT?! That's right, Southerners don't only read, we've got some of the best writers in literature, always have. This page is being set up so everyone can see what's new, what's fascinating, what people around the south and everywhere else are reading. Send us the names of books that are of interest lately, and we'll post them here on this page, as well as who submitted it, if you want. Don't be a knucklehead, be a mucklehead!

Click here to send us the title of what you're readin' now! (Southern or otherwise) Include who wrote it and a one line desciption, and we'll post it up on the book club page. Be sure to tell us who you are and where you're from (if you want). Here's a sampling of some Mucklehead must-reads:

2007 Submissions
Salvation on Sand Mountain, by Dennis Covington. A true account of snake-handling and redemption in Southern Appalachia. Submitted by Andrew Bryant (Garage Deluxe) Knoxville, TN

The Little Friend and The Secret History, both by Donna Tartt – a Mississippi writer.
Submitted by Kathryn, Nashville

Flesh and Bone, A “Body Farm” Author:  Jefferson Bass (really two authors. World famous University of Tennessee Forensic Anthropologist Dr. Bill Bass and veteran journalist, John Jefferson) Submitted by "Layman"

Mississippi Sissy by Kevin Sessums
Submitted by Tam, Nashville/MS Delta

2006 Submissions
Dixie Lullaby by Mark Kemp
The Cheese Chronicles by Tommy Womack
Child Of God by Cormac McCarthy
Approximately Heaven by James Whorton, Jr.
Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You by Lewis Grizzard
The Hornet's Nest by Jimmy Carter
Sins of the Brother by Mike Stewart
The Ways We Touch by Miller Williams (Lucinda's daddy)
Brother To A Dragonfly by Will C. Campbell
(About Growing up in Mississippi and being from the South. Fantastic book.)
A Short History of a Small Place by T. R. Pearson
(It's rather old (1985) but is laugh-out-loud funny. set in the mythical town of Neely, N.C. with wild but believable characters. Pearson's work is often compared to the greatest of southern writers, with this, his first novel, described as being "filled with the most extravagantly hilarious stories to come along since Twain and Faulkner.)
Joe by Larry Brown, submitted by Kathi from Pegram, TN
I Hate to See that Evening Sun Go Down by William Gay, submitted by Sarah from Charlotte, NC
Foxes in the Henhouse by Dave Saunders & Steve Jarding, submitted by Mark from East Nashville, TN