Reading: “Strange Fruit” by Lillian Smith

Since being awarded a Lillian E. Smith Foundation Writer-in-Service Residency, I thought I ought to read Strange Fruit. I’m not much a novel reader; I like nonfiction and poetry more than fiction. I had already read Killers of the Dream, but had not read Strange Fruit, which is Lillian Smith’s most well-known book. Killers of the Dream blew me away with its stark assessment of Southern hypocrisy, along with all of the detailed ideas on the psychological impacts of that hypocrisy. Well, I finished the novel Strange Fruit last week… Read more Reading: “Strange Fruit” by Lillian Smith →