My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician, did two things. First, he taught me that all human beings should be...
County rescue boat to recover the corpse. Normally, I would
My clearest memory of Ferriday is driving over to sit in the decaying old Arcade theater in 1978, because unlike Natchez’s conservative theaters, the Arcade was showing Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunte...
The colonel had a single vice—whiskey—and he looked forward to the anesthetic burn of the Kentucky bourbon with sublime anticipation.
There’s nothing harder than fighting alone, with no one to keep you company in your foxhole.
Their belligerence in public places, their rudeness…there’s almost a pride in ignorance here. Black employees refuse to wait on white customers in stores. They treat incompetence as though it’s some k...
There’s nothing like a mystery to distract you from reality.
Sometimes we think we are moving randomly. But random behavior is rare in humans. We are always spiraling around something, whether we see it or not, a secret center of gravity with the invisible powe...
Sleeve,
Into another identity. And I
We rarely act from logic when facing the critical choices of our lives.
The hour of justice does not strike on the dials of this world.
Because I expected so little, Gaines's painting is startlingly powerul. A lank-haired blond woman with a hard face sits at akitchen table in the harsh light of a bare bulb. She's surrounded by dirty c...
Searching, revealing nothing. A few heads in the audience turn to me, wondering who could possibly have upset the equilibrium of the
Something new every time. The sound of forest insects comes from the phone. Then the screen lights up with the green sweep of my backyard. Even from the kitchen counter, I can see Jet’s naked body sit...
The thing about kicking open a door to the past is that sometimes what’s behind it comes out under its own power.
She’s floating outside in the maternal holding pattern all women learn after they have children, one that serves them well after grandchildren come along.
Deer were damn good swimmers, though not many people knew it.
Faith is something you have or you don’t, and to pretend you do in the hope of gaining some last-minute dispensation from a being whose existence you have denied all your life goes against everything...
IF A MAN is forced to choose between the truth and his father, only a fool chooses the truth.
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