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Although the Southern Arts Journal ™ has ceased publication, you may continue to enjoy selections from the four quarterly issues we published. Single copies may be purchased at booksellers across the South, and selected content is on this site. Here are a few of the comments and reviews the Southern Arts Journal ™ gathered during its one year of existence.

Comments & Reviews

"If you are a Southerner by birth or accident, have any interest in the South or Southerners, you'll find this is a periodical that is difficult to put down. It's available at independent booksellers...Buy one before they are all gone or you'll have to wait three months for the next one..." — North Carolina's largest circulation independent community weekly

“What I thought was going to be an eclectic mix of Southern writing is actually an immersion into all things Southern...Wendell Berry is an amazing writer.” — Huntsville, Alabama

“I just love this little book. It's got a little bit of everything in it, even recipes…I wish we'd get it more often.” — Virginia Museum shop Manager

"You'll thoroughly enjoy the first issue of a new magazine, SOUTHERN ARTS JOURNAL, featuring all things Southern, including cooking! Wendell Berry (my hero) has a previously unpublished piece in this one. It's a great value at $8.50…" — from an NC bookseller's regular national enewsletter to several thousand subscribers

“...The Journal is a keeper...it's the type of publication that has been sorely missing in today's frenetic, troubled world...” — Jacksonville, Florida

“The journal looks great. I like the size. And I like the contents.” — Durham, North Carolina

" …the concept behind the publication is a good one…it definitely fills a niche …This is a publication that can go from the coffeetable to the nightstand to the back of the can with ease, and into your bookshelf when you're done with it. There are some totally fascinating articles… like one on the history of Civil War postcards…and one about the pedal-steel virtuoso tradition among a small sect of black southern Baptists,…an awesome book excerpt about this dude who followed the entire NASCAR circuit for a year in a motor home …" — Hillbillies blog review

“I loved every iota of it.” — Florida bookseller

“This is a magazine that you don't read and throw away; you read it and put it in your bookcase...” — Arkansas radio commentator and writer

"…On a recent trip I brought along three issues of The Smithsonian Magazine and The Southern Arts Journal to read while waiting at the airport and on the plane. Once I started reading SAJ my Smithsonians didn't stand a chance - they never left my backpack." — Asheboro, North Carolina

“I took a copy home last night...the content and presentation is so compelling, I think you've done a wonderful job...” —Georgia-based independent bookstore owner

"…Excellent….I fear the south is losing its southerness and your book seems to be a tribute to that southern flavor. I took my daughters for a walk through the woods (50 acres) near our house yesterday. After a few hundred years as a natural area, they are being developed. They always had a lot of mystery and intrigue—old abandoned chimneys, wells…fish ponds and huge massive trees. Well it was very sad to walk through that yesterday. They've just bull dozed big sections of it. We used to play back there and wonder about the folks who lived or hunted there. Somehow your book reminds me of that: how the woods used to be. I hope it does well…." — Greensboro, NC

“Mr. Lock, You handed me the Southern Arts Journal ™ at the Liberty Antiques Festival. I read it cover-to-cover and enjoyed it greatly...” —SC antiques dealer

“Where do you find all of this? This is great...” — Alexandria, Virginia

A Publication of Robert C. Lock, Inc., Post Office Box 13739, Greensboro, North Carolina 27415