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Colonel Bruce Hampton on Widespread Panic: In The Beginning
(Jan 26th, 14:46)
Colonel Bruce Hampton on Widespread Panic: In The Beginning This week I interviewed
Rebecca Meredith, Author of The Last of the Pascagoula, Has Alabama Roots
(Jan 21st, 12:03)
I discovered Rebecca Woods Meredith when I received a copy of her read more...
Cormac McCarthy Sells First Film Script Titled The Counselor
(Jan 20th, 09:27)
Cormac McCarthy Sells First Script Writer
FX's Justified Leads Elmore Leonard To Release New And Old Books About Raylan Givens
(Jan 18th, 17:13)
Swampland reviewed Elmore Leonard's fine short story collection
>>Discourse Book Excerpts
Dixie Lullaby
An excerpt from DIXIE LULLABY: A Story of Music, Race, and New Beginnings in a New South By Mark Kemp University of Georgia Press
See You In A Hundred Years
An excerpt from SEE YOU IN A HUNDRED YEARS: Four Seasons In Forgotten America By Logan Ward Benbella Books ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
Picture of the Day
>>Discourse reviews
Review of: Old Clinton BAR-B-Q
Old Clinton BAR-B-Q House
James Calemine's "Never Ending Soul Food Tour" includes documented visits to barbecue joints, catfish dens, chicken read more...
Review of: David Weddle
If They Move...Kill 'Em
(Grove Press) Published in 1994, David Weddle's biography of filmmaker
>>Discourse Fiction
The Bayou Sideshow
The Bayou Sideshow By James Calemine THE BAYOU SIDESHOW “I shouldna’ been foolin’ with a married man,” uttered our hero, Doreen, as she grinned a perfect smile, and passed me the pipe. “I’ll have to go back to the beginning for you to understand the disturbing circumstances I got myself read more...
Brother To Jackals
BROTHER TO JACKALS By James Calemine I have become a brother to jackals, a companion of owls. -Job 30:29 Like a muddied spring or a polluted well, is a righteous man who gives way to read more...
>>Discourse Features
My Year of Scary Movies: (Part 9) The Shining
My Year of Scary Movies (Part 9): The Shining By Daniel Hutchens The story goes that during filming of The Shining, director Stanley Kubrick once called novelist Stephen King (from whose book the film was drawn) at about 3:00 in the morning. “Do you believe in God?” Kubrick asked.
A Georgia Son in the Big Apple: The Brit Whittle Interview
A Georgia Son in the Big Apple The Brit Whittle Interview By James Calemine Acting is a rough trade. Few attain moments on the silver screen. The streets of Hollywood and New York are paved with bones of dead aspirant thespians. Georgia native Brit Whittle is making a name for himself in New York City. In November, Whittle appeared in read more...
>>Discourse Conversations
Walking with Zambi: The Colonel Bruce Hampton Interview
Walking with Zambi: The Colonel Bruce Hampton Interview By James Calemine "I do not come to you as a reality. I come to you as a myth." --Sun Ra "Space Is The Place" "I never had much control Until I got to Arkansas..." read more...
Through A Crooked Sun: The Rich Robinson Interview
Through A Crooked Sun The Rich Robinson Interview By James Calemine "The prodigy of my youth is now broken Leaving what's left beneath the stars..." "Bye Bye Baby" Rich Robinson Born in 1969, the same day as Bob Dylan--May 24,
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>>Discourse Poetry
Four Poems by Matthew Nolan: A New Orleans Poet
Caterpillar Girls (from Crumpled Paper Dolls, 2004) Should have known! Should have known! Between a phony butterfly and a never evolving caterpillar— Her pleasant sincerity is a funny hat that droops over her face, a blind dunce, a cartoon caterpillar; a squirming, eyeless caterpillar, on its read more...
Why GP Cries
by Harry Moore Beneath the seething August heat bolls of cotton crack, then burst in fluffy locks, green leaves twist, turn brown and fall. Black faces glisten as workers bend to knee-high stalks, plucking the soft fiber from prickly burrs, packing handfuls into the canvas sack they drag till it’s strutted, then read more...