Butterfly in the Typewriter

Anyone with ties to New Orleans knows their Confederacy of Dunces, and it’s Swiftian derivation. This new biography of John Kennedy Toole has me retreading it. Looking at the story as a manifestation of paranoid schizophrenia, reframes everything entirely, and refocuses our considerations of the causes of Toole’s suicide. Worth plowing through the first chapter, […]

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Intro film

Here is a little intro piece I put together.  It is made up of images Luke and I captured while we were walking around the China Grove area.  It was November but still in the mid 70’s.  Most of this was filmed at the China Grove Methodist Church, as there isn’t a whole lot of […]

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The Gilchrist Prize for Short Fiction

Luke and I drove down to Ocean Springs and spent the day with Ellen Gilchrist, I have no idea how we can possibly compress it, watched it with Charlene Moore Anderson last night and she was absolutely enthralled. Time to get to work. Oh, by the way, China Grove will be awarding the first Ellen […]

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