There must be something in the water, or something about the month of May. Whatever it is, to the readers and book-lovers (as well as the idly curious) who made this month my most successful this year, thank you very much. Glad to know that folks are still enjoying the antics of Wade Stuart, as …
I don’t brag on my hometown too often, but there’s good reason to. For one, Columbus, Miss., is the birthplace of America’s greatest playwright, Tennessee Williams. His boyhood home is now a historical landmark in the downtown area (that’s it to the left). The town was also spared the Yankee torch during the Civil War …
This is probably going to get me some hate mail, but here it is: Americans commemorate Memorial Day poorly and wrongly. Let’s go with poorly first. In our consumer society, we’re all about “getting away for the weekend” (which in my area means hours of maddening traffic to get to an overcrowded, overpriced, overeverything beach …
This made me laugh today. A friend of mine, a former editor at a publishing house in New York, posted it on Facebook earlier. If you want to know why writers are generally nuts, it may be because we tend to view the world this way. First thing I thought of was Bob Bausch, who …
One thing about Southerners: we like to talk. Yeah, we do it slow, but we do it well. My cousin’s recent visit is a case in point. I have 10 first cousins on the Thompson side, all of which have a little of the story tellin’ in them. Uncle Tom’s crew is the Alabama bunch …
Phillip Thompson 