>>DiscourseDispatches
Alabama Rules: From Blue-Eyed Soul to Soulful Blues
(Aug 17th, 9:49 am)
My friend Deryle Perryman, native of Florence and read more...
From Athens, Georgia To Jerry Wexler
(Aug 16th, 8:18 pm)
From Athens, Georgia To Jerry Wexler: A Feast of Friends… 8/16/08
The 80 Miles Between Athens & Atlanta
(Aug 9th, 8:52 pm)
Mystery And Manners Highlights Athens and Atlanta, Georgia 8/9/08
>>Discourse Book Excerpts
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 ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
Hurricane Season
An excerpt from HURRICANE SEASON: A COACH, HIS TEAM, AND THEIR TRIUMPH IN THE TIME OF KATRINA By Neal Thompson Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
Picture of the Day
>>Discourse reviews
Review of: Robert Earl Hardy
A Deeper Blue
A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt Robert Earl Hardy University of North Texas Press
Review of: Chuck Leavell
Forever Green
Forever Green: The History and Hope of the American Forest Chuck Leavell Longstreet Press By James read more...
Review of: Janisse Ray
Ecology of A Cracker Childhood
Ecology of A Cracker Childhood Janisse Eay Milkweed Editions By James Calemine
>>Discourse Fiction
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...
Truck Driving Man (An American Roadsong)
Truck Driving Man (An American Roadsong) By James Calemine "Well pour me another cup of coffee For it is the best in the land Put another nickel in the jukebox Cause I'm a truck driving man." -Terry Fell Since I arrived at the Habatchi Japanese Steakhouse for lunch at 11:30, at least once a month, no one else read more...
>>Discourse Features
Chuck Leavell: Rolling Stone & Tree Farmer
Chuck Leavell Rolling Stone & Tree Farmer By James Calemine When Birmingham, Alabama, native Chuck Leavell was 13 he attended a Ray Charles concert and his life read more...
Night of The Hunter
Night of The Hunter By Diann Blakely Artists, consciously or unconsciously, tend to choose one of two paths after finding, through years of apprenticeship, a signature style: continue pursuing that style, attempting to hone and read more...
>>Discourse Conversations
Dr. Milly Caudle: A Renaissance Woman for a Renaissance Town
by Penne J. Laubenthal Milly Caudle, affectionately known as “Red,” is a petite dynamo who was appointed a year and a half ago to fill the unexpired term of Athens City Councilman Henry White who was elected to the state legislature. Milly is currently a candidate for Place Five read more...
The Majestic and Graceful Music of Amy LaVere
The Majestic and Graceful Music of Amy LaVere The Amy LaVere Interview By James Calemine "You hold the key to my melody" --Amy LaVere
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>>Discourse Poetry
Poems by Natasha Trethewey
Miscegenation In 1965 my parents broke two laws of Mississippi; they went to Ohio to marry, returned to Mississippi. They crossed the river into Cincinnati, a city whose name begins with a sound like sin, the sound of wrong, mis in Mississippi. A year later they moved to Canada, followed a route the read more...
Hunting the Cotaco Creek
by Charles Ghigna His hand in hold so trigger tight even its blood believes in ghosts. It clings with set finger on steel and waits inside a dream of ducks. The twilight gives into a rise of eastern sky as sun reveals herself too proud and instantly receives full face a splash of mallard flock. A shotgun blasts the read more...