The Old South’s Rug, the New South’s Blanket

The Old South’s Rug, the New South’s Blanket

by | Sep 8, 2017 | Southern Literature

Southern Gothic Copes with Southern Shame “The Civil War was fought over states’ rights, not slavery,” my fifth-grade teacher said with her back turned to the class and the same smarty-pants tone we used on the playground. On the way home from school, I told my mother...
Is the Novella the New Netflix?

Is the Novella the New Netflix?

by | Jan 30, 2017 | Southern Literature

The average adult attention span equals eight seconds, according to Time. No wonder, as our fingers connect us to a mesmerizing map of colorful stimuli, rendering us useless for extended concentration. As people learn to binge bursts of episodic content on Netflix,...