Blogs in August 2020

Insanity 16th August 2020

Never, Kentucky is not your average scenic small town. It is a crossways, a place where the dead and the living can find no peace. Not that Forest, an 18-year-old foster kid who works the graveyard shift at Lincoln...

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Whiskey Business 16th August 2020

Ryder Waites will do anything to keep the tiny town of Gallows Grove, Kentucky, from vanishing off the map—even sell his family’s whiskey recipe to Bluegrass Bourbon in Lexington. Hopeful that the larger company can provide necessary improvements to...

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Triksta: Life and Death and New Orleans Rap 16th August 2020

What lunacy would cause a 55-year-old white male to embroil himself in the world of New Orleans rap – as ideas man, talent-spotter, lyricist, and would-be producer? Nik Cohn has loved (and hated) hip-hop since its birth and loved...

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The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square 16th August 2020

Named one of the Top 10 Books of 2008 by The Times-Picayune. Winner of the 2009 Humanities Book of the Year award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.Awarded the New Orleans Gulf South Booksellers Association Book of the...

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A Kind of Freedom 16th August 2020

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