Artistic Photos Capture Locations That Inspired Southern Fiction
The New Yorker’s website recently published a book review of Tema Stauffer’s photography collection Southern Fictions. Stauffer explores some of the places that influenced and shaped the work of William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, and more. The article also shares one of the more memorable – if horrible – Faulkner legends. Suffice it to say that…
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I write a monthly newsletter about the books I’m reading. Please check it out if you like books. During the pandemic, like everyone else, I took up baking. I’ve never been good at it – I follow recipes as inspiration and not guides and, as I discovered, baking is a science. So for months, I…
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Slushpile Reborn
My friend Scott McKenzie and I started Slushpile, a site about books, in 2005. Over the years we’ve sort of pulled back from updating and, as a result, the site has gone stale. I think it’s time bring it back. The site is about reading. We’re readers and writers and we love to review books…
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The Dirt: Filthy
Let me start with two things: 1) I’m glad I don’t have to code this post, because the amount of ö and ü I’d have to type in this band’s name would drive me to an insane life of unabashed hedonism, and 2) I wish I had to code this post. But seriously folks, although…
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Dracula Was Killed by a Texan with a Bowie Knife (and other true tales)
You heard that right, it wasn?t Van Helsing or Jonathan Harker who killed Dracula, it was one of America?s boys! Saving the world AGAIN. And he didn’t even need a gun! USA! USA! USA! But before we meet our hero, Quincey (not Quincy) Morris, we?ll briefly meet the cast of Bram Stoker’s most famous novel,…
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