Mixing It Up

In Mixing It Up, the most prolific and sagacious South-sayer of his generation and more has dealt us not just a hand, but a whole deck-full of winners. ~James C. Cobb, author of The South and America Since World War II

Like his sociological mentors Howard Odom and Rupert Vance, John Shelton Reed is rooted in the culture he describes so insightfully and cares about so deeply. He is fiercely independent, sardonic, witty, and sometimes just hilariously funny. No one writes better about the ironic contradictions of Southerners. ~Wayne Flynt, author of Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century

John Shelton Reeds’ Mixing It Up—miscellaneous writings on the ‘Northern part of the Gulf-Caribbean region,’ aka ‘the South’—is as deeply pleasurable, challenging, and culturally rich an experience as going to a pig pickin’ with William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Flannery O’Connor. It’s that good. ~Peter Bearman, author of Working for Respect: Community and Conflict at Walmart