Foster Dickson is a writer, editor, and teacher in Montgomery, Alabama. He is the author of Closed Ranks and I Just Make People Up, and the editor of Nobody’s Home: Modern Southern Folklore.

A Quick Tribute to “Hatchet-Face” Kim McGuire
December 2025

A Last Word on The Great Watchlist Purges, 2020 – 2025
October 2025

A Quick Tribute to “Junkyard Sal” June Mack
August 2025

The Watchlist Still Lives! (The Great Watchlist Purges, January 2025)
January 2025

The Watchlist Still Lives! (The Great Watchlist Purges, part . . . whatever)
July 2024

50 GenX Movies You’ve Probably Forgotten (Or Never Seen)
January 2024

A Quick Tribute to “Redneck Sheriff” Clifton James
December 2023

The Great Watchlist Purges: The Finally Final of All Final Reports
July 2023

Throwback Thursday: Walking Tall, 50 Years Later
February 2023

Watching: Sad Hill Unearthed (2017)
January 2023

The Great Watchlist Purges: Everything Must Go! 
January 2023

The Great Watchlist Purges: Fin
December 2022

The Great Watchlist Purges: A Late Summer Progress Report
September 2022

A Quick Tribute to “Mountain Man” Bill McKinney
August 2022

The Great Watchlist Purge of 2022 (Round two, that is.)
May 2022

Watching: My Name is Pauli Murray (2021)
November 2021

A Quick Tribute to Hy Pyke, Gone Fifteen Years Now
October 2021

The Great Watchlist Purge of 2021: As Done As Done is Gonna Get
September 2021

The Great Watchlist Purge of 2021: A Mid-Summer Progress Sport
July 2021

Watching: Sustenance (2020)
June 2021

The Great Watchlist Purge of 2021: A Springtime Progress Report
April 2021

Penelope Spheeris’ Suburbia (1983)
originally published on level:deepsouth, March 2021

Watching: Rooted in Peace (2016)
March 2021

The Great Watchlist Purge of 2021
January 2021

Watching: Out of Print (2013)
December 2020

Watching: Other Music and The Booksellers
October 2020

Watching: Disfarmer (2010)
June 2020

What Peter Fonda Meant to Me
August 2019

Watching: Radical Grace on Independent Lens
April 2017

Watching: All Me
October 2013

Watching: Five on the Black Hand Side (1973) 
October 2011

Watching: The House of Yes (1997)
September 2011

Watching: The Paris Blues (1961)
August 2011

Watching: One Bad Cat, Slacker, and Slaughter of the Vampires
June 2011

Watching: The Defiant Ones (1958)
March 2011

Watching: Howl (2010)
March 2011

Watching: Black Orpheus (1959)
March 2011

Watching: Teachers (1984)
November 2010