Bible Belt Blues
Carolina Wren Press (Verlag)
978-1-958888-66-7 (ISBN)
Hal Crowther is a writer who has made a long and illustrious career with sharp political and social commentary in the pages of national and regional outlets, from Time to the Atlanta Constitution to the Oxford American. In this collection, Crowther turns his attention once again to the Bible Belt, the American South, where he finds plenty of fodder for the blues: the descent from George Washington to Donald Trump, the difficulty of finding civil political discourse in a world where folks spew vitriol from behind their keyboards, Klan members marching down the street in Crowther’s hometown, the infantilization of culture (starring Mark Zuckerberg), the continued intertwining of religion and governance, and more. This essay collection features a foreword by eminent Southern writer Lee Smith, author of The Last Girls and Silver Alert.
Hal Crowther is an award-winning critic and essayist, a journalist whose work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, Granta, and Narrative magazines, among many others, and in the Oxford American, where his column “Dealer’s Choice” was a finalist for a National Magazine Award. His columns and reviews have been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Spectator, and many independent weeklies and journals. A recipient of the Baltimore Sun’s Mencken Award for Writing, he is the author of four essay collections and An Infuriating American: The Incendiary Arts of H.L. Mencken. His most recent collection was Freedom Fighters and Hellraisers (Blair, 2018). For his third collection of essays, Gather at the River, he was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle prize for criticism. He lives in Hillsborough, NC, with his wife, novelist Lee Smith.
I. Old Times There Are Not Forgotten
Facing The Founder: On a Day of Shame
A Confederacy of Dunces? Once Again, Dixie Wants Out
Bad News From Home: The White Knights Ride Again
A Whiter Shade of Pale?
Blueprint For Sorrow: The Singular Career of W. Sidney Pittman, Architect
II. Stations of the Cross
Bible Belt Blues
Godforsaken: Of Death and Daffodils
Christian Soldiers
III. Politics: Ballets, Bullets, Bedrooms
Sex and the Southern Politician
And Who Will Lead Us?: The problem with presidents
Goddess of Greed: Ayn Rand is the Right’s Weirdest Idol of All
Chaos Theory: When Madness Gains Momentum
From the Madhouse to the White House
Slaughterhouse America Remember the Alamo?
IV. Shadows Fall
Going Viral: Fighting For Oxygen in Trump’s America
Darkness at Dawn: The Campus in Crisis
“The Gates of Hell”---Swinging Wide?
Dark Clouds Gathering: Homegrown Fascists Show Their Teeth
V. It’s Twilight Time
Dante on Broadway
The Twilight of Truth?
Apocalypse When? Is Reality Melting With the Ice Caps?
VI. Reflections and Meditations
Otherwise Occupied: What Price Revolution?
The Forever Queen: Good-bye to All That
Out of Date: The Joys of Obsolescence
| Erscheinungsdatum | 21.10.2025 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 228 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-958888-66-4 / 1958888664 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-958888-66-7 / 9781958888667 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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