Southern Culture Authority presents
Southern satire for the well-bred & barely hanging on.
We say the quiet part out loud.
There’s the South we talk about in public, and there’s the South we discuss on the ride home. Usually, the ride home is more interesting.
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The Culture Collection
The literary side of the Southern conversation. Character-driven books about ritual, family, status, celebration and the rules nobody wrote down.
Enter the Culture CollectionThe Destination Collection
Satirical field guides to the places Southerners go to get away. Less sightseeing checklist, more who rented what and whether it is actually waterfront.
Enter the Destination Collection
Culture Collection · Book OneThe Culture Collection flagship
New Year’s Eve through Christmas Eve, with a stop at Mardi Gras, Easter brunch and the Fourth of July flag cake that almost ruined a marriage.
There’s hurricane season, SEC Saturdays, Thanksgiving seating charts negotiated like peace treaties, and the gift closet of a woman in Oxford, Mississippi who has not stood in line at a retail counter in thirty years.
Twelve chapters. Eleven women. One maid who has been watching all of it since before they were born.
If you’re not hosting, you’re being graded.
What kind of book is it?
This isn’t an etiquette manual, cookbook or sentimental tour of the old South. It’s a cultural decode of the South we’re living in now, told through the occasions that reveal us.
Stories, character sketches, observations and quick-hit truths move through an entire Southern year. Readers will recognize themselves, their mothers, the couple down the street and at least one woman they hope never reads the book.
Some recipes aren’t food. They’re agreements.
Inside the book
Twelve chapters, a full year and a few observances the federal calendar somehow overlooked.
New Year’s Eve · Mardi Gras
Easter · Mother’s Day · Father’s Day
Fourth of July · Hurricane Season
Back to School · Labor Day · Dove Season
SEC Football · Halloween
Thanksgiving · A Very Southern Christmas
“December is a circuit. Not a calendar.”
“She didn’t pack outfits. She packed outcomes.”
The Culture Collection
Stories and observations about the occasions, institutions and private weather systems that shape Southern life.
The guest list is a ranking system. The menu is a weapon.
The Destination Collection
The Destination books go where the South goes on vacation and watch what it does when it gets there. Some people travel to broaden their horizons. Others just want a better address for the week.
The places in the series
“She didn’t pack outfits. She packed outcomes.”
The publishing imprint
A Southern publishing house · Mobile, Alabama
Named for a circa-1910 house in Mobile, Circa 1910 Press is the publishing home for Southern Culture Authority’s original books and collections. It gives the work one consistent imprint, one standard of quality and room to grow well beyond a single title.
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