A small, hardback book just came in the mail. It’s about a deadly rampage in 1868 in Chalmette, just downriver from New Orleans, by white vigilantes against Black people recently freed from slavery. Author and historian Chris Dier tells the...
While looking through my books today and I picked up a musty volume titled “Deep Delta Country.” I purchased it in a used bookshop in New Orleans a few years ago and have not read it. Inside, I discovered an old, linen postcard of the Blue Room...
This morning, I read something by Eudora Welty (1909-2001) and was moved by the brilliance of her ability to see into the heart of a place, hear the whispers of its inseparable sins and virtues, see its fleeting glories . . .
I am looking through volumes of literary criticism previously frowned upon by college students desperate to know things like how far into Joyce’s “Ulysses” they had to read before feeling justified in giving up. Some of these pages have...
Rarely, if ever, has the behavior of Santa’s reindeer prior to Rudolph’s first big Christmas Eve leadership role been unapologetically subjected to cultural criticism. Indeed, the whole matter has been routinely sugar-coated. I call foul. In a...
A month ago, mostly out of curiosity, I bought a book written by a friend of mine, Timothy Simer, “The Coterian Retreat,” which chronicles the author’s childhood and adolescence in Hamilton, Ohio, in the 1960s and . . .
Tennessee Williams makes me wonder why I even try. I spent my lunch hour today at the Monteleone Hotel, buying tickets to this weekend’s Tennessee Williams Festival. One of the events is a play about the author’s terrible relationship...
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