SS: Where did the idea for this novel come from? CDW: I was interested in a lot of stuff that depicted wilderness and I was interested in some of the things that William Gay did in his novel Twilight, but kind of refining not just the language but the interaction between the characters and the […]
On Southern Gothic: Amy Susan Wilson Interviews Brian Centrone and Jordan Scoggins
May 28, 2014 by Leave a Comment
ASW: Thank you so much, Brian and Jordan, for visiting with me today about your new anthology that you edited, Southern Gothic: New Tales of the South. Would you provide us with your definition of “Southern Gothic” and an overview of this wonderful anthology? B: This was something we actually talked in depth about over the […]
Amy Susan Wilson Interviews Karetta Hubbard and Molly Tinsley, Co-authors of the Novel “Satan’s Chamber”
April 23, 2014 by Leave a Comment
ASW: Karetta and Molly, congratulations on the success of your novel, Satan’s Chamber, which you wrote collaboratively. Your novel is set in Sudan and is a spy thriller as well as a novel of social justice. Why don’t we begin with your giving us an overview? KH & MT: Satan’s Chamber is action-packed, and casts […]
Allen Mendenhall Interviews James Elkins About Law, Literature, Poetry, and Teaching
March 19, 2014 by 2 Comments
AM: Jim, thank you for doing this interview. You recently came out with a book, Lawyer Poets and That World We Call Law. You’ve been researching and writing about lawyer poets for some time now. What is it about lawyer poets that fascinates you, and what is it about this type of person that makes him […]
Mollie Smith Waters Interviews Ted Dunagan
February 28, 2014 by 1 Comment
Ted Dunagan was born in 1943 in Coffeeville, Alabama. He completed the second grade there and then moved to Grove Hill, where he graduated from high school in 1961. He served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam era, after which he attended Georgia State University in Atlanta. Later, he married, began raising a family, […]