The Bulletin—March 5, 2013
...found murdered on Wednesday, February 27, 2013. The body of the Democratic candidate was discovered near the base of the Mississippi River after having been missing for a day. The...
Remnants of Flannery
...Bitter Southerner, August 2014, http://bittersoutherner.com/flannery-oconnor-walks-among-us-still. And yet, focusing on the entirety of O'Connor's legacy—the full portrait—ignores the ways in which she actually moved through the world. Nearly all of the...
Vestibule
...near the end seemed like rising hymnal rhythm, and let me feel how those forgotten words came from somewhere else and meant something. Something, if only to the single moth...
Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
...Charleston County in 1963, which initiated desegregation throughout the state nearly a decade after the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. The steeple of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church,...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...exactly where I was standing when it all sunk in. I was photographing in Mississippi in early March 2020, on spring break from teaching at Duke, my near annual pilgrimage...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...movement by educating generation after generation of students and have been doing so for nearly forty years. We have attained about ten graduating cohorts of undergrads so far. This is...
The Morning with Many Tongues
...Liquor. This interview took place on the porch of Andalusia, the home of Flannery O'Connor near Milledgeville, Georgia. Part 2: Hill discusses repetition in Blood Ties, his discovery of Milledgeville, “The...
Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey
...she has published two pieces, Elegy for the Native Guards and Theories of Time and Space. About Jake Adam York Raised near Gadsden in northeast Alabama by his steelworker father...
Bricking the Church
...wash of gravestones west, they've buried the wooden snow that answered sarvis in bloom and early morning fogs, in brick, a crust the same dull red as clay in nearby...