Excerpt from Eudora Welty's "Where is the Voice Coming From?" (1963)
...once, like a man under bad claws, and like just blood could weigh a ton he walked with it on his back to a better light. Didn't get no further...
Runaway
...alone. I made it To Fairfield Street before the headlights of Daddy's pickup caught me In mid-blur. But I left my lover better: I knifed a tire before I went...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...is barely decipherable, his stories are full of crude reference to whores and excrement, and his disdain for his betters is clearly his main objective. In the opening conversation of...
The Colonialist's Gaze
...suggested that in the on-going process of "Americanization" it might be better if the unfit inhabitants simply "died off." "Plan of Isabela," illustrated town map from Armstrong's notebooks. Image...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...week after I bought it, while it traveled between Herman Wallecki & Sons of Los Angeles and southern Illinois, I dreamed of a guitar so old it had weathered gray...
Murray Mountain, North Carolina
...not safe. So we're the first to agree that it needed to be built. Generally speaking, I think, it will be better as far as commuting for traffic, but the...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...status and—even better—bestsellerdom, Stein had spent three decades searching for a form and a format in which to present her writing that might help readers beyond her tiny coterie of...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...that our worlds never fall apart, in taking the day-to-day for granted. We like to think we know better (“Here today, gone tomorrow,” and all that). Whatever we know doesn’t...
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