Watching the Surface for a Sign
...for the Arts, the US Fulbright Commission, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Phillips lives in Brooklyn and teaches writing and literature at Drew University. Interview with Natasha Trethewey In...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...efficiently when they follow straight lines. Kennedy explains that "on a whim, I decided to map out where the city council members lived." He found that the zigzagging lines brought...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
Review As I write this review of Robert Wuthnow's compelling account of Texas religious and cultural history, I am struck by two seemingly unrelated yet telling events that resonate...
Sapelo Island Flyover
Video and Essay View the transcript of the video, along with a glossary of terms, here. A barrier island on the Georgia coast, Sapelo has an unusually long and varied...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...that minority displacement was an environmental concern. Improvement in the lives of vulnerable minorities, writes Tretter, will only be possible through an inclusive redefinition of the “environment.” Examining the historical...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...he chose to do so. Alternatively, vernacular artists like Patton and Presley followed an opposite trajectory. Born into poverty, they worked all their lives to escape the abject geographies of...
The Bulletin—December 20, 2012
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...
California Creek, North Carolina
...it being a road. All of a sudden for me it's gonna be a road. One of the overlooks is right there. They decided right where I lived was the...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
...lived before prison, with no new defenses or support against that environment. Shannon Brockman in his Foundry room, Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket, 2009. Two factors significantly help ex-inmates...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...artist for whom the South's past and present supplied endless and unpredictable material. On studio and live recordings, the self-proclaimed bluesologist can be found resurrecting the spirit of Jean Toomer's...