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  • Louisiana, ca. 1980

    During the time that Generation X was growing up, Louisiana had a population of 4.2 million people, nearly 1.1 million of them under age 15.…

  • Short Essay: “Happy, Happy”

    This essay was originally written for the Poetry Unites essay competition in 2021. The essay didn’t win, and it will probably never appear in a…

  • The Open Submissions Period for “Nobody’s Home”

    Starting tomorrow and ending June 15, I will be reading submissions of creative nonfiction to expand the Nobody’s Home anthology. All submitting writers should read…

  • Southern Movie 58: “The Chamber” (1996)

    The Southern Movies series explores images of the South in modern films as well as how those images affect American perspectives on the region. 1996’s…