Photo by Morgan Trinker New Orleans is an important city to me for lots of reasons: It's inspirational and magical and…
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I Trend, Therefore I Am?
If a coffee is drunk in a local shop and it isn’t Instagrammed, did it really happen? That’s the question I’m…
Catch a Localist Update on ABC 33/40 This Morning
Why did I get up last night to cut a hole in a cardboard box and tape sparkly pipe cleaners to…
It’s Over! Kind of! The Localist Book Makes It to NYC
Less than six months ago, I sat on my porch and came up with an idea for a book tour —…
Books in Beantown: Taking The Localist to Boston
When I think of literary Boston, I picture historical figures like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow roaming…
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy Review on BookPage
The Turner House is the story of a big family struggling to connect after they’ve grown up and (mostly) moved out…
Pennsylvania’s Small Towns: The Stuff Dreams (or Books, at Least) Are Made of
Last week, the Localist book tour took me around Pennsylvania — to Doylestown, Manayunk (in Philly) and Frenchtown (which is actually…
Read Like a Forager; Eat Like Katniss, Hagrid and Snape
It’s not every day you have the opportunity to step into the pages of a book, but next Saturday, if you…
Book Signings, Zombies and Other Terrors
If you look at my Instagram, you’ll see me smiling and posing, hopping from coffee shop to bookstore to bar, speaking…
30 Days of Local Praise Gets New Life with INBirmingham
At the beginning of this year, I had an idea that I made into a resolution — I designed 30 Days…