Joseph Crespino Interviews Thomas Mullen, Author of Darktown
...the best debut novel of the year. Mullen's books are notable for the range and variety of their historical settings and influences. Last Town on Earth is set in a...
DOIs and Altmetrics
...By adopting digital object identifiers (DOIs) and partnering with Altmetric, Southern Spaces continues to model best practices in digital publishing. All Southern Spaces pieces now include DOIs that provide a...
Zircon
...of fifteen books of poetry, most recently Dark Energy (Penguin, 2015). He has also published nine volumes of fiction, including Gap Creek (1999), a New York Times bestseller. A sequel to Gap Creek,...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...in a multi-media environment that engaged artists, activists, and academics in dialogue about innovative Atlanta projects.2 "The South Got Something to Say" refers to Andree 3000's acceptance speech at the 1995 Source Awards. "Outkast winning Best New...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...Greene and NOTHING like Williamsburg,"2This is surely the best evidence that Bywater is in fact Williamsburg: there's nothing more "Williamsburg" than claiming that something you do is more like Fort...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...demeanor of Parks's subjects belies the injustice of the "separate but unequal"1Charlayne Hunter-Gault, "Doing the Best We Could with What We Had," in Gordon Parks: Segregation Story (Göttingen, Germany: Steidl,...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...men still wear blue overalls, work shirts, brogans, cowboy boots, or they may wear their best suits, invariably with the vest buttoned wrong. But these are the old people and...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...reported that Mitchell was a troublemaker and a "Negro-hater" and that the mob was "composed of young hot-headed fellows, and not of the older and very best citizens of the...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...is the author of fourteen books of poetry, most recently Terroir, 2011. He has also published nine volumes of fiction, including Gap Creek, a New York Times bestseller. A sequel...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...or a mansion torn violently from the earth. Faulkner's best works are three-dimensional objects, while the films adapted from these novels are, without exception, flat.3The 1969 film version of The...