Oh yes, I adore Kindred. One of my favorite books, actually, and I agree much better than Fledgling.
Jinx? If you and Dreg have been using my moisturizer again I'm going to have to rip off your scaly- hey, what's the deal with your face?
Glory ,'Potential'
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 28431
The status is NOT quo.
flea - Mar 10, 2009 8:54:30 am PDT #8556 of 28431
information libertarian
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 28431
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 28431
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 28431
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 28431
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 28431
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 28431
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 28431
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 28431
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.