June 5, 2023
By Jenny Molberg Poet Jenny Molberg explores how individuals and institutions employ language, legal linguistics, and figures of speech to distort truth and punish those who seek it. She also… READ MORE
April 20, 2023
By David M. Brunson In this post, David M. Brunson explains how he came to put together the bilingual anthology A Scar Where Goodbyes Are Written, a collection of poems… READ MORE
December 6, 2022
By Ruth Laney Ruth Laney shares how an impromptu interview inspired a love of storytelling and led to a decades-long friendship with one of Louisiana’s most celebrated writers. In late… READ MORE
November 9, 2022
By Raquel Kennon Raquel Kennon reveals how her family’s lineage intersected with her academic training and resulted in a book tracing the literary and cultural legacies of slavery in the… READ MORE
October 10, 2022
By Derrick Harriell Derrick Harriell explains how, as a poet, inspiration takes hold—especially when you’re least expecting (or even wanting) it. Before writing my recent collection of poems, Come Kingdom,… READ MORE
July 30, 2020
Approximate Gestures: Infinite Spaces in the Fiction of Percival Everett encourages readers and critics to think more deeply about how they position themselves in and engage with the world around… READ MORE
March 12, 2020
The celebrated writer Elizabeth Spencer passed away late last year at her home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She authored nine novels, many short stories, and a memoir widely seen… READ MORE
April 6, 2018
In LeAnne Howe at the Intersections of Southern and Native American Literature, I attempt to depict the complexity of the Choctaw writer’s work—its intellectualism, its humor, its powerful invocations of… READ MORE
November 3, 2017
In Neon Visions, I discuss the ways in which Howard Chaykin’s work, once routinely hailed as groundbreaking in its themes and innovative in exploiting the unique properties of the comics… READ MORE
November 5, 2012
“Reading The Hemingway Short Story is like attending a master class on literary craft; an expert scholar-critic reveals the subtle methods and moves that produce the distinctive, memorable effects that… READ MORE
