Snake & Tree

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Upon Senator Doug Jones’ seating, let’s talk about extant Southern progressives.

Some families enjoy a Christmas ham and caroling. My family enjoys not having possums in the attic and a good mullet.

Faulkner scares people. With as much truth as he’s dropping, he probably should.

Quick Cash and Payday Loan merchants are fixtures in most rural towns. This is why I hate them.

This isn’t about values. This is about what true Southern pride looks like, and it looks like Doug Jones.

Trying to reconcile hateful ass perceptions of the South with people that actually live here.

Shame, poverty, and gospel music. Dorothy Allison’s seminal work has it all.

Talking bad about Dolly could get your ass whooped.

Nancy Isenberg’s history of poor white Southerners, aka “white trash,” is both necessary and exceedingly good.

A riveting narrative of a young, promising woman coming of age. The blockbuster is coming, just you wait.