Review of Ryan Walsh’s 2019 collection of poetry, Reckonings.
Read More
The broke South and mean stories.
Review of Ryan Walsh’s 2019 collection of poetry, Reckonings.
Read MoreMatthew Desmond, the academic behind the Eviction Lab, studies the housing crisis from within the home.
Read MorePoverty is a state of emergency.
Read MoreWilliam Gay could tell a story. Even a scary one. Especially a scary one.
Read MoreJesmyn Ward is the New South’s voice and artist. Her new novel is painful, melancholy, and beautifully wrought.
Read MoreStoll’s book of Appalachian history was released in November of last year. The responses are wild, so here’s mine.
Read MoreShame, poverty, and gospel music. Dorothy Allison’s seminal work has it all.
Read MoreNancy Isenberg’s history of poor white Southerners, aka “white trash,” is both necessary and exceedingly good.
Read MoreIf you absorbed S-Town Podcast like 6 damn billion other people did, this is what I think about all that.
Read MoreWilliam Gay died in 2012 in Hohenwald, Tennessee, but lord Jesus that man could tell a story.
Read More