Son Of The Rough South

Author : Karl Fleming
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 9781586483890
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Son of the Rough South written by Karl Fleming and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2006-06-12 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legendary civil rights reporter Karl Fleming was born in North Carolina's flattest, bleakest tobacco landscape. Raised in a Methodist orphanage during the Great Depression, he was isolated from much of the world around him until an early newspaper job introduced him to the era's brutal racial politics and a subsequent posting as Newsweek's lead civil rights reporter took him to the South's hotspots throughout the 1960s: James Meredith's enrollment at the University of Mississipi, the 1963 Birmingham church bombing, the assassination of Medgar Evers, the murders of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi, and more. On May 17, 1966, Fleming was beaten by black rioters on the streets of Los Angeles. Newsweek covered the incident in their next issue, and here's what they wrote: "That he was beaten by Negroes in the streets of Watts was a cruel irony. Fleming had covered the landmark battles of the Negro revolt from Albany, Ga., to Oxford, Miss., to Birmingham, Ala., and numberless way stations whose names are now all but forgotten.... No journalist was more closely tuned into the Movement; once when a Newsweek Washington correspondent asked the Justice Department to name some Dixie hot spots, the Justice man replied, ‘Ask Fleming. That's what we do.'" In Son of the Rough South, Fleming has delivered a stunning, revealing memoir of all the worlds he knew, black, white, violent, and cloistered — and a deeply moving read for anyone interested in any rough South.

Author : Jean W. Cash
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496804961
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rough South, Rural South written by Jean W. Cash and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays in Rough South, Rural South describe and discuss the work of southern writers who began their careers in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. They fall into two categories. Some, born into the working class, strove to become writers and learned without benefit of higher education, such writers as Larry Brown and William Gay. Others came from lower- or middle-class backgrounds and became writers through practice and education: Dorothy Allison, Tom Franklin, Tim Gautreaux, Clyde Edgerton, Kaye Gibbons, Silas House, Jill McCorkle, Chris Offutt, Ron Rash, Lee Smith, Brad Watson, Daniel Woodrell, and Steve Yarbrough. Their twenty-first-century colleagues are Wiley Cash, Peter Farris, Skip Horack, Michael Farris Smith, Barb Johnson, and Jesmyn Ward. In his seminal article, Erik Bledsoe distinguishes Rough South writers from such writers as William Faulkner and Erskine Caldwell. Younger writers who followed Harry Crews were born into and write about the Rough South. These writers undercut stereotypes, forcing readers to see the working poor differently. The next pieces begin with those on Crews and Cormac McCarthy, major influences on an entire generation. Later essays address members of both groups—the self-educated and the college-educated. Both groups share a clear understanding of the value of working-class southerners. Nearly all of the writers hold a reverence for the South’s landscape and its inhabitants as well as an affinity for realistic depictions of setting and characters.

Author : Karl Fleming
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 9781586482961
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Son of the Rough South written by Karl Fleming and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2005-05-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legendary civil rights reporter Karl Fleming was born in North Carolina's flattest, bleakest tobacco landscape. Raised in a Methodist orphanage during the Great Depression, he was isolated from much of the world around him until an early newspaper job introduced him to the era's brutal racial politics and a subsequent posting as Newsweek's lead civil rights reporter took him to the South's hotspots throughout the 1960s: James Meredith's enrollment at the University of Mississipi, the 1963 Birmingham church bombing, the assassination of Medgar Evers, the murders of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi, and more. On May 17, 1966, Fleming was beaten by black rioters on the streets of Los Angeles. Newsweek covered the incident in their next issue, and here's what they wrote: "That he was beaten by Negroes in the streets of Watts was a cruel irony. Fleming had covered the landmark battles of the Negro revolt from Albany, Ga., to Oxford, Miss., to Birmingham, Ala., and numberless way stations whose names are now all but forgotten.... No journalist was more closely tuned into the Movement; once when a Newsweek Washington correspondent asked the Justice Department to name some Dixie hot spots, the Justice man replied, ‘Ask Fleming. That's what we do.'" In Son of the Rough South, Fleming has delivered a stunning, revealing memoir of all the worlds he knew, black, white, violent, and cloistered — and a deeply moving read for anyone interested in any rough South.

Author : Sally Mann
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 031624774X
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hold Still written by Sally Mann and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This National Book Award finalist is a revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann. In this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her DNA by the family history that precedes her. Sorting through boxes of family papers and yellowed photographs she finds more than she bargained for: "deceit and scandal, alcohol, domestic abuse, car crashes, bogeymen, clandestine affairs, dearly loved and disputed family land . . . racial complications, vast sums of money made and lost, the return of the prodigal son, and maybe even bloody murder." In lyrical prose and startlingly revealing photographs, she crafts a totally original form of personal history that has the page-turning drama of a great novel but is firmly rooted in the fertile soil of her own life.

Author : Michael Patrick MacDonald
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807071986
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Souls written by Michael Patrick MacDonald and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2010-07-28 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breakaway bestseller since its first printing, All Souls takes us deep into Michael Patrick MacDonald's Southie, the proudly insular neighborhood with the highest concentration of white poverty in America. Rocked by Whitey Bulger's crime schemes and busing riots, MacDonald's Southie is populated by sharply hewn characters like his Ma, a miniskirted, accordion-playing single mother who endures the deaths of four of her eleven children. Nearly suffocated by his grief and his community's code of silence, MacDonald tells his family story here with gritty but moving honesty.

Author : Larry Brown
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805053036
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Father and Son written by Larry Brown and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-09-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic story of good and evil set in the rural American South of 1968.

Author : Phil Lee
Publisher : Rough Guides
ISBN 13 : 9781858287089
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mini Rough Guide to Menorca written by Phil Lee and published by Rough Guides. This book was released on 2001 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive handbook to the island with in-depth coverage of Mao, Ciutadella and all the sights, from megalithic monuments to fine old country mansions. Includes up-to-the-minute recommendations of the best places to eat, drink and stay, in all price ranges, and practical tips on the island's favourite walking routes, plus the pick of the beaches.

Author : Silas House
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616209364
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southernmost written by Silas House and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A novel for our time, a courageous and necessary book.” —Jennifer Haigh, author of Heat and Light In this stunning novel about judgment, courage, heartbreak, and change, author Silas House wrestles with the limits of belief and the infinite ways to love. In the aftermath of a flood that washes away much of a small Tennessee town, evangelical preacher Asher Sharp offers shelter to two gay men. In doing so, he starts to see his life anew—and risks losing everything: his wife, locked into her religious prejudices; his congregation, which shuns Asher after he delivers a passionate sermon in defense of tolerance; and his young son, Justin, caught in the middle of what turns into a bitter custody battle. With no way out but ahead, Asher takes Justin and flees to Key West, where he hopes to find his brother, Luke, whom he’d turned against years ago after Luke came out. And it is there, at the southernmost point of the country, that Asher and Justin discover a new way of thinking about the world, and a new way of understanding love. Southernmost is a tender and affecting book, a meditation on love and its consequences.

Author : Rough Guides
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 140936349X
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The South Rough Guides Snapshot USA (includes North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas) written by Rough Guides and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide Snapshot to the South is the ultimate travel guide to this hugely varied part of the USA. It guides you through the states of North and South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennesse, Alabama, Mississipi and Arkansas with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions from the gorgeous architecture of Savannah and the live music bars of Memphis and Nashville to the backroads of the Mississippi Delta. Detailed maps and up-to-date listings pinpoint the best cafés, restaurants, hotels, shops, bars and nightlife, ensuring you have the best trip possible. Also included is the Basics section from The Rough Guide to the USA, with all the practical information you need for travelling stateside, including driving tips, accommodation and food and drink costs, plus background on festivals, sports and outdoor activities. Also published as part of The Rough Guide to the USA. Full coverage: North Carolina, South Carolina, Charlestown, Georgia, Atlanta, Athens, Savannah, Brunswick, Ketucky, Lexington, Bluegrass Country, Louisville, Tennessee, Memphis, Nashville, Smoky Mountains National Park, Chattanooga, Alabama, Birmingham, Montgomery, Mississippi, Arkansas, Little Rock (Equivalent printed page extent 132 pages).

Author : Dick Wolfsie
Publisher : Clerisy Press, Emmis Books
ISBN 13 : 9781578601974
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dick Wolfsie's New Book written by Dick Wolfsie and published by Clerisy Press, Emmis Books. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dick Wolfsie reveals why wives walk faster than husbands; why all great ideas begin in a gara≥ why you shouldn’t eat lunch with your spouse; why women won’t drink Three Stooges Beer; how mice can cause a divorce; and how to use a bus to cure insomnia. These and other hysterical observations will have readers nodding their heads in recognition — and rolling on the floor in laughter.