Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...Yardley down," and because this metaphor makes no sense to his listener, he obligingly goes into more detail: "Fixin her fur rotten cumfurtably, kiverin her up wif sile, tu keep...
Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces
...her life), an article that traces the landscapes and characters of her life as they emerge in her letters, a discussion of her importance to novelist Alice Walker in a...
The Boatloads
...make, each day a longer list, the sheet curling at his toes. Back for another load, he moors his boat and begins calling out, Adam, Mary, Sarah, Thomas, running down...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...American Routes' Nick Spitzer interviews Mike Cooley, Shonna Tucker, and Patterson Hood, February 9, 2011. http://americanroutes.publicradio.org/player/playlist/25905/hour1 Musically, over the last several years, the Truckers have been coming home more often....
Elegy for the Native Guards
...their legacy? All the grave markers, all the crude headstones— water—lost. Now fish dart among their bones, and we listen for what the waves intone. Only the fort remains, near...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...which at least purports to be about musicians, Desperate Man Blues is about the adventures and tastes of a collector of roots music records. For a large chunk of the...
Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
Photo Essay Map of Memphis Neighborhoods (Base Map Data: US Census Bureau) Photographer's Statement While I didn't seek out hand-painted signs, I noticed their emergence as a pattern in my...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...Pennsylvania" a reliable treat. Listen to Stein read excerpts from The Making of America Once out of Allegheny, Stein, like her teacher William James and his brother Henry and their...
History: The Parlor
...activity, but instead of reading individually and silently, the family was likely to listen to someone reading aloud. Typically, the man of the house would read aloud, while women engaged...
The US South and the 2008 Election
Essay At least since the 1960s, every presidential election has elicited abundant commentary on the role of the South in national politics. The 2008 election has been no different. It...