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The Entrepreneurial Poor
by Lindsey Maddox
May 9, 2008
“If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but because they cannot retain the returns of their labor,” writes Muhammed Yunus in his narrative…
We All Watch Oprah
by Brandi Herrera Pfrehm
April 30, 2008
Juan Felipe Herrera is one of the preeminent voices in 20th-century Chicano poetry. Since the early 1970s, he’s devoted his multimedia work to challenging the notions of what it is to be a Mexican American. His poetry and prose is both provocative and experimental, possessing a drive that can only come from the revolutionist’s heart. And Herrera’s heart is devoted to busting traditional literary forms out of their tightly synched seams, giving voice to a people so often left voiceless by American culture and its insular tendencies.
The Lawd Tells Hit Like It Is
by James L. Dickerson
April 23, 2008
Your average Mississippi judge is as cold-blooded as a lamprey eel. But, over the years, there have been exceptions.
Think Globally, Eat Locally
by Kelly Bryan Smith
April 16, 2008
Warning: Barbara Kingsolver’s nonfiction book “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life” (HarperCollins, 2007, $26.95), co-written by her husband and one of her daughters, may inspire you to run screaming out of Kroger and into your closest farmer’s market.
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[Books] Polishing Southern Tarnish
by Emily Braden
April 4, 2007
Well, I declare. Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays must have my double-first-name aunts on speed dial for their second offering: “Somebody is Going to Die if Lily Beth Doesn’t Catch That Bouquet: The Official Southern Ladies’ Guide to…
[Books] Loving Mississippi
by Nientara Anderson
Photos by Ken Murphy
February 28, 2007
How do you express collective memory? It is a question many artists struggle with as they try to capture something larger than themselves, as they try to say something about origins and other people. Ken Murphy’s answer is a book of photographs, and it seems a fitting solution.
[Comics] Because Nobody Else Will
by William Patrick Butler
February 16, 2005
The Desolation hasn't happened, yet.
But it will.
"Desolation Jones" is the newest series coming from the mind of critically acclaimed writer Warren Ellis and former "Promethea" artist J.H. Williams (who co-created…
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[Books] Polishing Southern Tarnish
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We All Watch Oprah
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We All Watch Oprah
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[Lunch Lady] A Cold, Sweet Goodbye
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[Lunch Lady] A Cold, Sweet Goodbye
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[Lunch Lady] A Cold, Sweet Goodbye
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[Lunch Lady] A Cold, Sweet Goodbye
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