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ReviewsSeptember 19, 2017

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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ReviewsAugust 27, 2017August 29, 2017

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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ReviewsAugust 4, 2017August 15, 2017

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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I’m Rachel, a jaded twenty-something English grad student looking to tell some stories. Currently based in Knoxville, Tennessee, born and bred in rural Alabama. Here you’ll find liberal political tirades, stories, book reviews, and folklore focused in on these lower Southeastern thirteen states.

The title “Snake and Tree” comes from the Alabama proverb that if you hang a dead snake in a tree it’ll bring rain. These stories are the snake. The rain is making peace with this broke South.

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