reading – Snake & Tree

June 15, 2018June 15, 2018

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.

April 22, 2018

Review: William Gay’s Little Sister Death

William Gay could tell a story. Even a scary one. Especially a scary one.

December 16, 2017December 16, 2017

My Buddy Bill: Y’all Need Faulkner

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

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.