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Catfish days
Ode to the bottom-feeding fellow
Sep 30
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Tennessee Goddam
Memphis, the National Guard, and the awful state we’re in
Sep 23
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Confessions of a dog-hater
Guest post: Our greyhound origin story, as told by my wife
Sep 16
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The last greyhound
Ode to a retired racer
Sep 15
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The Museum of Southern Sentences (a new and occasional feature)
To hell with plot, narrative arc, and commensurateness, whatever that is. Give me sentences.
Sep 9
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Charley Hull sure is an opinionated cuss, for a quiet man
Meet the anti-hero of my newspaper novel COME AGAIN NO MORE
Sep 2
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August 2025
Outlaw Country
A shot of short fiction, Southern-fried
Aug 28
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When Charles Portis met Elvis
A cub reporter and the boy king meet in 1958 Memphis
Aug 19
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Me and the devil
For Robert Johnson and them
Aug 12
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Hiss and buzz
Encounter with folk-art bees
Aug 5
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July 2025
Bluff City Ruckus: John Prine in Memphis, 1979
A folkie’s wild ride with Sam Phillips & Sons in a pink Cadillac
Jul 29
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Robert Johnson at the polo grounds
The devil, the Delta, and Dixie Peach pomade
Jul 22
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