Posts Tagged “sam lipstye”
A word about Barry Hannah, please
by Morgan on January 17, 2011
Barry Hannah is consistently cited as the best writer out of the South since Faulkner, since O’Connor, a writer born of the territory they mapped; but I think he’s better than both. Faulkner invented Southern Gothic, but if we’re being (…)
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Obligatory year-end list
by Morgan on December 31, 2010
By this point, if you aren’t ready to stab yourself with a poisoned letter opener if you see one more Year’s Best Books roundup…you’re probably not me. But it’s tradition, so. Vol. 1 Brooklyn’s list is pretty interesting (mad kudos (…)
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