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The South

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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: American Horror in New Orleans

  • C.W. Cannon
  • June 29, 2014
I 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.
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Revising the Revisionists

  • Johannes Lichtman
  • July 10, 2012
I suffer from the primary carpet-bagging compulsion of the northern writer living in the South:
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A World Almost Rotten: The Fiction Of William Gay

  • William Giraldi
  • April 18, 2012
  The 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.
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Race and Redistricting

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • February 3, 2012
The 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…
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Going Away Shoes

  • Skip Horack
  • September 18, 2009
Eleven stories from Jill McCorkle show the humor to be found in desperation—and vice versa.
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Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing

  • Karen Laws
  • September 8, 2009
Lydia Peelle’s stories focus on scurrilous ne’er-do-wells who flail about in circumstances beyond their control.
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