AM: First of all, congratulations on the publication of your novel, Bearings and Distances. You’ve got deep roots in the South but haven’t lived here in some time. Do you ever feel a sense of, pardon the term, alienation? GA: Thank you. As for a sense of alienation, sure I’ve felt it, but less in […]
“Remembering Medgar Evers,” by Minrose Gwin
August 14, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by Chris Timmons Medgar Evers should be of interest to anyone who has examined the racial history of the United States, and of the South. It’s too bad he is now near-forgotten. Undoubtedly, general American forgetfulness has much to do with it; as far as history goes, Americans do not have much memory. Nor […]
Casey Clabough Responds
August 17, 2012 by 3 Comments
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“Gone,” Edited with Photography by Nell Dickerson
April 25, 2012 by 2 Comments
Review by Allen Mendenhall BelleBooks. 118 pages. I’ve always maintained a spectator’s curiosity in the rituals and practices of photography. I can’t take a good picture, no matter which side of the camera I’m on, but I appreciate the idea of reducing the world to a more manageable form, something I can look at […]