A man lives morally all his life, then in one weak moment commits an act that damns him in his own eyes and threatens his liberty, even his life.
He committed such a heinous act, would have owned up to it and taken his punishment like a man, as the archaic phrase goes. That may be a quaint and sexist notion these days, but some of what is best...
The temptation to second-guess is strong. But I must remember one thing. Life is simple.
Change my conviction.
Einstein said the arrow of time flies in only one direction. Faulkner, being from Mississippi, understood the matter differently. He said the past is never dead; it's not even past. All of us labor in...
Between us. That night I prayed like a man trying to polish coal
Remember what Aristotle said! she cries. Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers. And Horace! Horace? What did Horace say, Pithy? Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children, be...
You ever read American Tabloid, by James Ellroy?
For Sweden, the price of aiding the Allies could be fifty thousand uninvited guests
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...
While Sands's eyes flicker with private mirth, the evil that Tim hinted at fills my soul like a squid's ink.
Even chitlins smell good to a starving man.
Emotions are by nature amorphous. When confined to words, our longings and passions, our rebellions and humiliations often seem melodramatic, trivial, or even pathetic.
Nothing frightens me more than the faith in my daughter’s eyes. How many men deserve that kind of trust? One by one, the mentors I’ve most admired eventually revealed chinks in their armor, cracks in...
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.
When you drive down Cemetery Road, the angel appears to be looking directly at you. Yet once you pass the monument and look back over your shoulder, the angel is still looking at you. Thus the appella...
Did the fact that Martin Luther King diddled all those women change what he did for his people? Or Franklin Roosevelt? General Eisenhower? Not one whit. Men are men, and gods are for storybooks. And i...
Deer were damn good swimmers, though not many people knew it.
When we reach the intersection with Homochitto Street, I turn right, into town, and soon we’re passing Dunleith, the antebellum mansion that I always say makes Tara from Gone with the Wind look like a...
CNN, okay? They came at night and beat down the doors. All
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