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  • A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week #77

    A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week #77

    Linguists have long realized that if they could establish the words that were shared across these vast distances – particularly by now well-separated languages –…

  • “The New Yorker” in Tuskegee, 1965

    “The New Yorker” in Tuskegee, 1965

    Welcome to Eclectic offers long-form ruminations on the modern diverse South, education, sustainability, and social justice. Fifty years ago this week, The New Yorker ran…

  • A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week #76

    A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week #76

    Reading is a provocation, a rebellion: we open the book’s door, pretending it is a simple paperback, and in broad daylight escape! We are no…

  • Dirty Boots: Bad News Times Three, Alabama

    Dirty Boots: Irregular Attempts at Critical Thinking and Border Crossing offers a Deep Southern, Generation X perspective on the culture, politics, and general milieu of the…