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Author
Language
English
Description
"Keenly observed and written with his insightful and deadpan sense of humor, [Rick Bragg] explores enduring Southern truths about home, place, spirit, table, and the regions' varied geographies, including his native Alabama, Cajun country, and the Gulf Coast. Everything is explored, from regional obsessions from college football and fishing, to mayonnaise and spoon bread, to the simple beauty of a fish on the hook. Collected from over a decade of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
Includes 33 previously uncollected pieces -- one story, one poem, numerous speeches, interviews, essays, reviews, and unfinished drafts -- which address variously the issues of women's rights; the history and future of Southern, American, and modernist literatures; the responsibilities of writer and critic; and the future of humanist values in a "machine civilization", a "time of general disintegration, when stupidity, cruelty, vulgarity and mere...
Publisher
Hub City Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This fierce collection celebrates the incredible diversity in the contemporary South by featuring essays by twenty-one of the finest young writers of color living and working in the region today, who all address a central question: Who is welcome? Kiese Laymon navigates the racial politics of publishing while recording his audiobook in Mississippi. Regina Bradley moves to Indiana and grapples with a landscape devoid of her Southern cultural touchstones,...
