Complicating Unhelpful Binaries: Talking with Deesha Philyaw
Deesha Philyaw discusses her debut story collection, THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES.
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...more“Song of the Gourd” is like an eye roll at this sort of gusto about leaving the Southland.
...moreI would really like to see a coming back or recreation of funeral rites. Let’s create new ones. Let’s take this matter into our own hands.
...moreMy responsibility is to not be negligent and cause unnecessary harm. To a listener or reader. My allegiance is only to truth.
...moreThere are so many spaces in this country where I feel unsafe particularly because of my body.
...moreWhat scares me in the current work is how much I trust the concept, what I’m trying to achieve.
...moreI don’t think it ever fully sunk in for me that I even live in America.
...moreI’m thinking about the difference between “I stay somewhere” and “I live somewhere.”
...moreThe sitting down to write, convincing myself that my voice matters, even though there are so many telling me that it doesn’t.
...moreThe South is my favorite cousin.
...moreOver at The Nervous Breakdown, Elise Sherman explores her literary roots in a self interview that touches on the South, her neo-Faulknerian tendencies, and the difference between New Orleans and the rest of the world.
...moreIf you’re looking for independent bookstores to visit on your Southern road trip—or, in the absence of a road trip, want to know what Southern booksellers are reading this summer—then check out this interview with five Southern indie bookshop owners. Read up!
...moreI came home from work the other day and found a notice taped to my front door. It had the logo for the FX television series American Horror Story on it and announced they would be filming on my block that weekend.
...moreI suffer from the primary carpet-bagging compulsion of the northern writer living in the South:
...moreThe great Southern novelist and story writer William Gay died at his home in Hohenwald, Tennessee, on February 23rd of this year, at the age of 70.
...moreThe Nation explains how the GOP is resegregating the South with its infuriating redistricting campaign. “The GOP’s long-term goal is to enshrine a system of racially polarized voting that will make it harder for Democrats to win races on local, state, federal and presidential levels. Four years after the election of Barack Obama, which offered […]
...moreEleven stories from Jill McCorkle show the humor to be found in desperation—and vice versa.
...moreLydia Peelle’s stories focus on scurrilous ne’er-do-wells who flail about in circumstances beyond their control.
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