The Whole Town's Talking
Elmwood Springs, Missouri, is a small town like any other, but something strange is happening at the cemetery. Still Meadows, as it’s called, is anything but still. Original, profound, The Whole Town’s Talking, a novel in the tradition of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town and Flagg’s own Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven, tells the story […]
The All-girl Filling Station's Last Reunion
“Flagg spins another charming tale of the peaks and valleys of everyday life … If all the self-help books that promote ways to “find yourself†were stacked in an enormous pile … none would approach the sweet wisdom with which Flagg infuses The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion. And neither could they match the author’s […]
I Still Dream About You : a Novel
The Washington Post – Sarah Pekkanen: For a comic mystery romp, Fannie Flagg's latest book, I Still Dream About You, has a lot of talk about suicide, incest, cross-dressing and vicious backstabbing. But hey, who says those are bad things? Flagg, the author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe and a half-dozen […]
Coming Attraction
Fried Green Tomatoes At the Whistle Stop Cafe
Standing In the Rainbow
Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!
Can't Wait to Get to Heaven
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. Returning to Elmwood Springs, Mo., (where her sprawling 2002 novel, Standing in the Rainbow, chronicled the small town's inhabitants over five decades), Flagg keeps this outing much more tightly-focused; most of the novel takes place over a few days. Octogenarian Elner Shimfissle falls off a ladder after accidentally disturbing a […]