Review of Ryan Walsh’s 2019 collection of poetry, Reckonings.
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Review: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Matthew Desmond, the academic behind the Eviction Lab, studies the housing crisis from within the home.
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Review: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Poverty is a state of emergency.
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Review: William Gay’s Little Sister Death
William Gay could tell a story. Even a scary one. Especially a scary one.
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The Dead Become a Song: Review of Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward is the New South’s voice and artist. Her new novel is painful, melancholy, and beautifully wrought.
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Review: Steven Stoll’s Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
Stoll’s book of Appalachian history was released in November of last year. The responses are wild, so here’s mine.
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Review: Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Shame, poverty, and gospel music. Dorothy Allison’s seminal work has it all.
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Review: Nancy Isenberg’s White Trash
Nancy Isenberg’s history of poor white Southerners, aka “white trash,” is both necessary and exceedingly good.
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Review: S-Town Podcast
If you absorbed S-Town Podcast like 6 damn billion other people did, this is what I think about all that.
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Hellfire, William Gay Could Tell a Story
William Gay died in 2012 in Hohenwald, Tennessee, but lord Jesus that man could tell a story.
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