The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...titles of Shepherd’s books are so tragic: Otherhood, Some Are Drowning, Wrong, Fata Morgana, Red Clay Weather. It does not sound like a good time. Greek myths lend themselves to...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
Introduction DDT is good for me advertisement, Time, June 30, 1947. Scan by Flickr user Crossett Library. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Early in 1949, Dottie Colson wrote to...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
An Unlikely Bohemia We are hope despite the times. R.E.M., "These Days" (1986) In Athens, Georgia, in the 1980s, if you were young and willing to live without much money,...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...how "like any good host, Atlanta tried to show the world a good time, and, for the most part, succeeded. When you stand at the doorway and your host and...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...numbers, vetting projects, and trading horses in an effort that to longtime observers must have seemed a fool's errand. Competition, not collaboration, had long characterized metropolitan relationships and it wasn't...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...also be attributed to the interests of Sibley herself. Despite showing time and time again—in her newspaper columns and works of non-fiction from the 1960s to 80s, and in her...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...roughly half-a-million new suburban black residents number more than two-and-a-half times that for Washington and more than four times that of Chicago.35Frey, Melting Pot Cities and Suburbs. Percent of Greater...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...Guatemala. And while men still make up the majority of Maya migrants, a growing number of women and children have joined husbands, fathers, and brothers in Georgia, resulting in a...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...printed in St. Petersburg (FL) Times, Feb. 14, 1931, 2–3; see also "Open Waters in Salt Creek" St. Petersburg (FL) Times, June 16, 1921, 10. Most recently, the city revised...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...North Carolina Growers Association had to buy into this or else we would have had a hard time making the documentary. They did buy into it because we met with...