Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...and Gus Van Sant befriended him and invited him to take photographs on their movie sets. More recently, Eggleston has had major exhibitions at galleries and museums around the world...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...based on the seedy potboiler Sanctuary, to 1959's The Sound and the Fury (starring Yul Brynner, of all people, as the sadistic Jason Compson), big screen adaptations of Faulkner's modernist...
Theories of Time and Space
...of shrimp boats are loose stitches in a sky threatening rain. Cross over the man-made beach, 26 miles of sand dumped on the mangrove swamp—buried terrain of the past. Bring...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...I interviewed his former agent, Susan Ann Protter, as well as his editors, Juris Jurjevics and Dr. Emily Wright. In addition to Benny, I talked with his siblings, Shirley Andrews...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...a film show and a pre-recorded soundtrack. Before Michael took the stage, his sister Lynda Stipe, who wrote the songs, played bass while Michael and Lynda’s friend Linda Hopper sang....
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
Review Rowan County Court House and Jail, Salisbury, North Carolina, circa 1905-1915. Courtesy of the Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards, North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at...
Place, Time, and Memory
Place, Time, and Memory Part 2: Works that reveal the passage of time and nature upon buildings and landscapes Part 3: Origins and intentions ofChristenberry's “Klan Tableau,” the creation of “Dream Buildings,”...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...sanctioned way of life. But the same enslaved Africans who introduced rice culture brought with them a virulent strain of falciparum malaria, and as they cleared swamps for expanded rice...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...Do Believe,” Patterson Hood calls out—maybe to Hinton—“I believe I saw your shadow looking like 1967, Percy Sledge on the radio.” Perhaps because they grew-up in and sang about North...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...Pakistan)." Not quite on par with the extremist Hindu right wing's demand in India: "Babar ki santan / Jaao Pakistan ya Kabristan" ("Descendants of [the Mughal Emperor] Babar [i.e., Muslims...