Where Bourbon Roams
A look under the hard hat of the oldest continually operating bourbon distillery in America.
Literary Friday, Edition 89
Interview, chat and giveaway with Wiley Cash, plus making pie for 'Labor Day,' 50 Books By Women Authors, 'The Great Gatsby' in Alabama this weekend and a new poem about remembering the South. Happy Literary Friday!
Quitting Ohio
Where you grew up, the farms are lacquered in smells of turned cream and cut hay. I like to think of you there—flying
Wiley Cash's Next Homerun
Upon the debut of his second novel, the North Carolina author talks about his sense of place, love of baseball and responsibility to his community.
A Pair of Snow Poems
We wake to snow But still incredulous, Our disbelief like sleep In dream-deep eyes
Toilet Seat Art at Birmingham Public Library
A new exhibit that highlights the work of Fayette, Alabama, artist Lois Wilson is gracing the library walls with some bizarre found art.
Literary Friday, Edition 88
Save the Date for Wiley Cash, reading Faulkner & Flannery and highlights from the Real Housewives of Yoknapatawpha County in Literary News, #readwomen2014 in Social Media, Zora! Festival in Literary Events and an essay on home improvement by Michael Farris Smith. Happy Literary Friday!
Faulkner & Flannery Notes – Week 1
Spring 2014 Books & Film Class Topic - Faulkner & Flannery: Exploring the Southern Gothic Held Wednesdays through February 19 at UL Lafayette Instructor: Dr. Mary Ann Wilson Notes will be updated each Friday through February 21; comment to join in the discussion. I arrived to a full classroom on Wednesday, and English professor Mary Ann Wilson began with an introduction to the Southern Gothic and the parallels between Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner. Both Southern Gothic writers working in the 1950s and early 1960s, they certainly used similar techniques in storytelling and were inspired by their surroundings, while at the same time turning out very different work. It's easy to say that Faulkner is the more famous of the two, but O'Connor's Library of America volume of collected works outsold Faulkner's. Southern Gothic - a style of writing practiced by many writers of the American South whose stories set in that region are characterized by grotesque, macabre, or fantastic incidents. Although living two states away in central Georgia, while Faulkner was in Oxford, Mississippi, O'Connor was aware of him, as he was a giant in American literature when she was just getting started. Her best known quote about him is "I keep clear of Faulkner so my
