Bodies and Souls
...in San Francisco, California, where she works in independent film and online media. Herring began making films after graduating from Duke University. There, she collaborated with Andre Robinson in producing and directing...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
Introduction: A Visit to Andalusia, August 2007 The road leading to the farmhouse is long, rutted, and unpaved —the land surrounding it, quiet and unkempt. I pass a dilapidated milking...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...TV. "How can I miss you when you won't go away?" sings native Arkansan Dan Hicks in his tongue-in-cheek classic. As someone continually and deeply interested in individual stories, personal...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...Georgia so she can tell her friends back in Minnesota she has been in two states at the same time. She kicks off her sandals and enters, the water so...
Excerpt from Saints at the River
...time. She kicks off her sandals and enters, the water so much colder than she imagined, and quickly deeper, up to her kneecaps, surging under the smooth surface. She shivers....
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...churches throughout the United States, Anne Braden has screened in Austin, Louisville, Lexington, Oakland, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and Vancouver with more viewings scheduled. Kentucky Public Television (KETKY) has rebroadcast...
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...