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Second Reading Period for “Nobody’s Home” Begins Today
Today begins the second reading period for my new project Nobody’s Home: Modern Southern Folklore. This reading period will end on February 15, with works…
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16,425 days: The Whitehurst Case
It has been 16,425 days since December 2, 1975, the day that a 33-year-old black man named Bernard Whitehurst, Jr. was shot and killed by…
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The Lower End of the Highest Rates: Suicide and Generation X
This post was originally published on level:deepsouth— for Generation X. Sometimes I try to do things, and they just don’t work out the way I…
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Southern Movie 52: “Suddenly, Last Summer” (1959)
Perhaps most well-known for its iconic scene of Katherine Hepburn descending in a wrought-iron elevator, 1959’s Suddenly, Last Summer is one among a series of…
