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Monthly Archives: June 2010
Tobacco Spitting and Tomahawk Throwing
Go to the Summer Redneck Games, if that's your thing. I'd like to point out that a true Redneck Games would have tobacco spitting contests instead of watermelon seeds. I feel like rambling and riffing, as sometimes happens when I'm not writing … Continue reading
The Mountain Whose Shadow We Lived In, fiction by Jack Boettcher
My kid transferred through every school on our side of the mountain. Only six, but a fighter. I didn’t teach him that. The principals ask, – “well, Mr. Doppler, where might Fred have learned to lash out?” Nature, I say. … Continue reading
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Gasland
Those of you with HBO–look for it. Trailer New content coming soon, so hang tight.
Mindy Beth Miller via Bent Country's Sheldon Compton
More young Appalachian writers to watch out for: Mindy Beth Miller and Sheldon Compton. Before anything else, have a look at Mindy Beth Miller's writing chops. Here's a couple paragraphs to give you a taste: "Back on Low Gap, the sun … Continue reading
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Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone, the film
These notes may be late to the party, but I just got this first review in my email via Google Alert. It's difficult to believe this description of the movie Winter's Bone, based on the novel by Daniel Woodrell, has … Continue reading
