The Right Coast (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
He is reported to be large and hairy. Readers may recall northern Georgia is the setting of the famous (and quite good) James Dickey novel Deliverance. Made into the quite good movie, of course. Here's the website of the venture...
Peach Pundit (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Chris Dickey, son of the famous Southern poet James Dickey, cons Yankee editors at Newsweek into believing he’s still a son of the South so he can write-up a load of overwrought, overwritten, stereotyping copy about our behavior during this time of “change.” Now this part of the country, where I have my deepest roots, feels [...]
DawgSports (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
We in Bulldog Nation have many reasons to be uncomfortable with James Dickey, the late National Book Award-winning poet. For one thing, he didn’t portray Georgians in a particularly flattering light. Dickey, after all, had a seemingly unbroken string of ties to the Bulldogs’ historic rivals: he regularly attended Georgia Tech track meets and football games as a youth; after studying briefly at Clemson...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
The new issue of The Oxford American contains a long, lovely essay by Bronwen Dickey, the daughter of James Dickey, in which she revisits the Chattooga River, made famous — and nearly destroyed — by the success of the film version of James Dickey's novel "Deliverance." It's an outstanding piece of writing — and also slyly [...].
US News (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
"A thrust provided by Southern ascendancy."
Poets.org (Free subscription) | 03/28/2008
The author of over ten collections of poetry, Stanford's work has been praised and elegized by many poets including Thomas Lux, James Dickey, and Franz Wright.
Gut Rumbles (Free subscription) | 03/16/2008
Originally published April 22, 2003 The best bar in Savannah is Jim Collins' place on Whitaker Street. Jim has been...
Library Journal News (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
The University of South Carolina (USC) posthumously has awarded its Thomas Cooper Society Medal for Distinction in the Arts and Sciences to Norman Mailer for his lifetime literary achievement.
It's all Good. (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
“In literature, as in love, we are astonished by what is chosen by others.” — André Maurois Today's list describes popular things that wouldn't be popular if it were left up to me alone. Not that I’m right and anyone else is wrong, it's just that I can't join in the appreciation for them. [...]
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
Oct. 25, 1940 – Robert Montgomery Knight was born in Massillon, Ohio. Raised in nearby Orville, Knight would eventually attend Ohio State and help the Buckeyes win the 1960 national championship. May 1965 – Colonel Ray Murphy, Army's athletic director, hires the 24-year-old Knight, who at the time had another offer from Cincinnati. April 1, 1971 – Hired by Indiana University at $20,000 annually. In...
composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 02/02/2008
Your birthday today: You have a strong personality, much charm, and are capable of great good or evil. You like to dream too much, and so waste valuable time. You are an excellent conversationalist and enjoy culture and refinement. Your work should be active, and you will be very successful if you stick to it. You have nobody else written into the book for today, so let your strong personality lead...
Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 02/02/2008
B orn today: William Rose Benet, critical essayist, poet, Fort Hamilton, N.Y., 1886; James Joyce, novelist, short-story writer, Dublin, 1882; Ayn Rand, novelist, playwright, essayist, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1905; James Dickey, poet, novelist, critical essayist, Atlanta, Ga., 1923; Judith Viorst, children's author, poet, Newark, N.J., 1931. Died: Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, chef, author, Paris, 1826;...
NewPages Blog (Free subscription) | 02/01/2008
The History of Changing Lives Through Literature An Alternative Sentencing Program "Changing Lives Through Literature (CLTL) is a program that began in Massachusetts in response to a growing need within our criminal justice system to find alternatives to incarceration. Burdened by expense and repeat offenders, our prisons can rarely give adequate attention to the needs of inmates and, thus, do
Black Bear Blog (Free subscription) | 01/28/2008
These lines have been drawn in the sand many times, probably since the beginning of time but I think today those drawing the lines are being more vocal about it and the lines are getting deeper and bolder. These days we dare not “profile”, once referred to as stereotyping, because it is deemed politically incorrect [...]
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 12/02/2007
By Edward Gunts, The Baltimore Sun Dec. 2--Since 1973, Charles L. Wagandt has been working to rehabilitate Oella, a former textile mill village in western Baltimore County that he bought after the mill closed.
