Blogs in February 2020

Anthill 9th February 2020

Winner of the 2010 Heartland Prize, Anthill follows the thrilling adventures of a modern-day Huck Finn, enthralled with the “strange, beautiful, and elegant” world of his native Nokobee County. But as developers begin to threaten the endangered marshlands around...

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The Sun Does Shine 4th October 2019

At age 29, Anthony Ray Hinton was wrongfully charged with robbery and murder, and sentenced to death by electrocution for crimes he didn’t commit. The only thing he had in common with the perpetrator was the colour of his...

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Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia 25th November 2018

Fascinating nonfiction read about the culture of snake handling Pentacostalists in Southern Appalachia. The author, a reporter for the New York Times, originally approached the story as a journalist covering an attempted murder trial: a snake handling preacher was...

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Train Whistle Guitar 25th November 2018

Set in 1920s Gasoline Point, Alabama, a fictitious town based on author Albert Murray’s hometown of Magazine Point, Train Whistle Guitar is a coming of age story of Scooter, a young black boy who with his friend Little Buddy,...

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Forrest Gump 25th November 2018

Forrest Gump paints a portrait of contemporary Alabama from the point of view of an idiot savant. Technically, Forrest Gump does not take place wholly in Alabama. In fact, much of the time Forrest isn’t in Alabama at all....

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