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  • Southern Movie 30: “Baby Doll” (1956)

    Southern Movie 30: “Baby Doll” (1956)

    After Streetcar Named Desire, but before Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Night of the Iguana, and Suddenly, Last Summer, there was Baby Doll, Elie Kazan’s 1956 adaptation…

  • #throwbackthursday: The Impeachment of Bill Clinton, 1998

    It was twenty years ago this month that the nation watched as a Republican-controlled Congress, led in part by Georgia’s Newt Gingrich, impeached Democratic President…

  • Dirty Boots: Reading and the Truths on our Doorsteps

    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…

  • Last Night’s Poetry Reading

    Last night, my Creative Writing students had their annual poetry reading at Kress on Dexter in downtown Montgomery. Twelve students read from original works and…