Oh yes, I adore Kindred. One of my favorite books, actually, and I agree much better than Fledgling.
Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.
Andrew ,'Damage'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Pix - Mar 07, 2009 3:28:52 pm PST #8555 of 28706
The status is NOT quo.
flea - Mar 10, 2009 8:54:30 am PDT #8556 of 28706
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I am doing a project called Understanding The American South. Recommend books to me that speak to this topic - history, culture, cooking, whatever. (Nonfiction preferred, though - I am not much of a fiction reader).
Hayden - Mar 10, 2009 8:59:31 am PDT #8557 of 28706
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
WJ Cash - The Mind of the South
VO Key - Southern Politics in State and Nation
C Vann Woodward - The Origins of the New South
C Vann Woodward - The Strange Career of Jim Crow
Hayden - Mar 10, 2009 9:02:01 am PDT #8558 of 28706
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Lawrence Goodwyn - The Populist Moment
C Vann Woodward - Tom Watson, Agrarian Rebel
Robert Wiebe - The Search for Order 1877 - 1920
Gavin Wright - Old South, New South
Hayden - Mar 10, 2009 9:04:16 am PDT #8559 of 28706
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Carter Woodson - The Mis-Education of the Negro
Frederick Douglass - My Bondage and My Freedom
Stanley Elkins - Slavery
Rick Perlstein - Nixonland (esp for the sections about George Wallace)
Hayden - Mar 10, 2009 9:06:38 am PDT #8560 of 28706
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Fiction:
Faulkner - Absolam! Absolam! and As I Lay Dying
Flannery O'Connor - Wise Blood
Larry Brown - Big Bad Love
Barry Hannah - Airships
Hayden - Mar 10, 2009 9:07:23 am PDT #8561 of 28706
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
It's like I've been waiting for years for someone to ask about this!
lisah - Mar 10, 2009 9:14:20 am PDT #8562 of 28706
Punishingly Intricate
It's like I've been waiting for years for someone to ask about this!
hah! You are on it! All I could think of were these collections of stories we read for my southern lit class in grad school: Stories of the Old South and Stories of the New South. There was great stuff in both of them.
Hayden - Mar 10, 2009 9:16:50 am PDT #8563 of 28706
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Fogel & Engermann's Time On The Cross is a hideous book that someone might recommend to you. I think you should read it, knowing that it's an abomination of history.
Thomas Dixon's The Clansman is the work of fiction that Birth of a Nation was based on.
Zora Neal Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God is another work of fiction, but the details are rather eye-opening.
Cormac McCarthy's early work Child of God is a great slice of Southern Gothic.
Sorry, more nonfiction:
Eric Foner's Reconstruction
David Halberstam's The Children (which is the finest book he ever wrote)
Sara Evans - Personal Politics, which is about the way that feminism was changed by the civil rights movement
Hayden - Mar 10, 2009 9:18:41 am PDT #8564 of 28706
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
There was great stuff in both of them.
I have a few of those collections! And I agree.