We’ve limited our list to living authors, which excludes recent giants Barry Hannah, William Gay, and Harry Crews, as well all the classics (Faulkner, Lee, Welty, O’Connor) who defined the genre. There has been much chatter about the state of Southern literature - what it means, what it once meant, what it should mean - but we only have one criteria: that it’s written by a Southern author, and that it’s amazing. This MM romance book was a beautiful, slow burn romance between two men who end. First, it will explore the myth that men are incapable of understanding the romance genre, and therefore are unable. So many great authors have written amazing gay romance novels and Ive. Today marks the release of Ron Rash’s excellent new novel, The Cove, and the book, a World War I love story set in the wilds of the Appalachian mountains, has gotten us on a serious Southern literature kick - particularly contemporary Southern literature, because we’ve read about all the Faulkner we can handle for one month, and accordingly, we’ve put together this list of contemporary Southern authors that are definitely worth carving out some reading time to delve into. By Sam Brougher (2017) This report focuses on male writers in the romance industry and seeks to prove that men are both able and successful writers of romance fiction.