Warmer Days to Come
A guest post by author Jenny Milchman, whose new novel Ruin Falls comes out April 22.
Little Punk
The wrathful kid with the fierce fingers and a penchant for torturing ants won’t stop breaking eggs on the sidewalk,
Easter in South Louisiana
My father dumps the mud-bugs into the salty water. The kids pick out the floating, dead ones, and chase each other around the lawn
Douglas Ray's Queer South
An interview with the Mississippi-born poet who explores grief through poetry in his 2012 book He Will Laugh and is currently working on an anthology titled The Queer South.
Literary Friday, (Early) Edition 99
Poet Douglas Ray's 'Queer South,' a look at the artistic mark Tennessee Williams left on Key West and some succulent stories from a new book about crawfish are just a taste of what you'll find in this early edition. Happy Easter!
A Pair of Cajun Stories by Shome Dasgupta
Ma was in the back boiling crawfish. Pepper was on the tree swing, swinging away. Barn was in his room. I was in the kitchen making iced-tea
Anna Magnani in The Rose Tattoo
The thing was, she wasn't really pretty. How many movie stars, in the firmament of Hollywood, that tinseled, technicolor world,
Tom's Town
An exhibit of paintings honors Tennessee Williams' artistic mark on Key West, a place where he could just be ''Tom" and not the famous writer.