"My view of the world is ironic, bitter, acid but basically funny, too. I'm a real gallows humorist. I see something funny in the grimmest circumstances. ...

How Louisiana transplants and new players have generated a thriving music and dance scene far from the South Queen Ida. Danny Poullard. Documentary filmmaker ...

With roots in the American South, Beth Henley (b. 1952) has for four decades been a working playwright and screenwriter. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in ...

Marking the fiftieth anniversary of Eudora Welty’s first important publication, this special collection of critical essays celebrates her achievement ...

The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760 Edited by Robbie Ethridge and Charles Hudson With essays by R. P. Stephen Davis, Jr., Penelope ...

One of the most distinctive voices in mainstream comics since the 1970s, Howard Chaykin (b. 1950) has earned a reputation as a visionary formal innovator ...

No recent television creator has generated more critical, scholarly, and popular discussion or acquired as devoted a cult following as Joss Whedon (b. ...

Essays in centennial celebration of William Faulkner and his achievement With essays and commentaries by André Bleikasten, Joseph Blotner, Larry ...

In his final speech "I've Been to the Mountaintop," Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his support of African American garbage workers on strike in Memphis. ...

Through dozens of interviews, a detailed chronology and filmography, and a selection of Dorothy Arzner's own writings--including her unfinished autobiography-- ...