Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...and families, cities and states, region and religion. In Southern Prohibition: Race, Reform, and Public Life in Middle Florida, 1820–1920, Lee L. Willis has written a short but incisive look...
Roadside Architecture
...Mississippi and the states bordering it had, for me, been little more than places to drive through on the way to somewhere else. When the mid-South unexpectedly became my home,...
Excerpt from Saints at the River
...middle and place one food in South Carolina and one in Georgia so she can tell her friends back in Minnesota she has been in two states at the same...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...internal monologues that give them complexity, and denying us Faulkner's unique ability to critique his own characters (and the ideas and estates they represent) simply by letting them talk to...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...college town dominated by college football and beer-drinking Greeks create an avant-garde approach to rock and roll? “They’re freaked out, especially in the states, that bands with any measure of...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
Interview Part 2: Morgan reads “Backwater” and discusses his history of coming to terms with his origins Part 3: Morgan reads “Heaven” and discusses the place of nostalgia in his poetry Part...
Rose Library Highlights: Amos Kennedy, Jr.
...of underreported black church burnings in southern states during the early 1990s. During his recent visit, I had the opportunity to interview Kennedy. As we chatted, Kennedy described his relationship to...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...various states of collapse around the vicinity of the house: a stable, the Hill house, the water tower, the milking shed, and the big barn. All of these elements figured...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...life, longleaf forests grew in many forms and various conditions and soil types across large areas of the southern states. The authors of Longleaf effectively argue that the forests' diminution...