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Notes on a Southern Gothic: Books & Brews, Friday October 13, Natchez, Mississippi
WHAT: Matthew Guinn and Steve Yates preview the 2018 Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration and introduce the theme, Southern Gothic WHERE: Natchez Brewing Company, 207 High Street, Natchez, Mississippi WHEN: Friday, October 13, from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m. BOOK SALES: Turning Pages Books & More, Natchez, http://turningpagesbooks.com/ Some starter culture: Being of the Ozarks,…
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“The Legend of the Albino Farm: A Novel” meets the Ozarks
This made no sense to Hettienne. Strange? Saturn? How could anyone ever think that Emerald Park was scary, lonely, and strange? Here was where you ran and yelled like Indians, and no one on Earth could stop you. Here was where nine nobles strove to defend castle walls and never once were defeated. Here was…
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How research fires writing: wills, inventories, archives, photographs, and what I learned in Howard Bahr’s Research and Writing class

The conductor went back to his paperwork, and Artemus looked past him out the window where the woods, the moss, the houses—some of them on stilts now—passed in winter array, made soft and ephemeral in a light the color of old pearls. That sublime passage is Howard Bahr from his extraordinarily beautiful novel, Pelican Road.…