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The Lillian Smith Center Residency, Part Two

July 14, 2011

*You ought to read “The Lillian Smith Center Residency, Part One” first. Now that I have had some time to reflect on being at the…
The Lillian Smith Center Residency, Part One

July 4, 2011

The Lillian E. Smith Center for the Creative Arts in Clayton, Georgia is located in what remains of writer and activist Lillian Smith’s Laurel Falls…
Watching “One Bad Cat,” “Slacker,” and “Slaughter of the Vampires”

June 25, 2011

I have been taking advantage lately of Netflix’s option to watch films directly on the computer, instead of waiting on the DVD to come in…
Reading: “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” by August Wilson

June 23, 2011

After re-reading “Fences” then reading “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “The Piano Lesson,” I decided to go one step further and read another one of…