The 2010 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference will examine the topic “Faulkner and Film” through five days of lectures and discussions by literary scholars and critics. Attendees will also have the opportunity to view five or six films based on Faulner’s works. If you consider yourself a Faulkner fanatic, of if you’ve just always wanted an excuse […]
Mudbound — June Read of the Month
June 17, 2010 by 1 Comment
When Barbara Kingsolver elected Hillary Jordan’s debut novel, Mudbound, for her Bellwether Prize (2006), the title went straight to my “must read” list. Since it remains one of my favorite books, I’m going to skip back a few years and choose it as our Read of the Month, a new SLR practice that will highlight one […]
In the Sanctuary of Outcasts, by Neil White
May 25, 2010 by Leave a Comment
“Surrounded by men and women who could not hide their disfigurement, I could see my own.” That’s how southern author, Neil White, sums up the eighteen months he spent incarcerated in Carville, Louisiana at the nation’s only functioning leprosarium. In his award-winning memoir, In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir, White peels back layers of […]