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  • Deep Southern Gardening Mystery #9

    Deep Southern Gardening Mystery #9

    These beautiful flowers come up behind my house every spring in a little patch that was probably was once a garden— the air-conditioning units were…

  • Deep Southern Gardening Mystery #8

    Every spring, about the time the new shoots of monkey grass emerge from the worn-out-looking dark green remnants I’ve cut down, these angular shoots come…

  • A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week #63

    A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week #63

    “In 1941, the southern journalist WJ Cash wrote an important book that continues to color people’s opinions about white southerners. Interestingly, it is the brilliance…

  • My next book: The Whitehurst Case

    I am proud to relay that today I contracted my next book, which will be on the Whitehurst Case in post-Civil Rights Montgomery. After meeting the…