Articles Tagged with #thesouth
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LA Confidentials
Burn All the Liars
An unfinished autobiography and a 1980s biopic turned Frances Farmer, one of the great golden-era stars, into a lobotomized zombie. The main trouble: Frances Farmer wasn’t lobotomized. An investigation to set one of Hollywood’s most convoluted stories straight.
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Gallery
Off Route 80
The pictures in Susan Lipper’s series may come from West Virginia, but they could be found off dozens of American byways.
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The True Meaning of T-Pain
Tallahassle
Florida is America’s most-abused state, and Tallahassee its biggest target for bi-coastal writers who pick low-hanging fruit—rednecks, old people—and wouldn’t know an alligator from their elbow. The slander has gone far enough. On behalf of every Tallahussey and T-Town man, let the corrections begin.
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Personal Essays
Northern Belle
New York is supposedly the home of the willful and headstrong, the forthright and brassy—but when a cousin from Nashville rolls into town, everyone else seems meek.
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Personal Essays
The Peril of Ceiling Fans
In South Carolina’s beach country, not having air conditioning, nevermind fans, is these days downright strange. A personal memoir of worried grandmothers and infant decapitation.
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Opinions
Concerning My Neighbors, the Hicks
It’s easy for Yankees to see the South as a swamp, full of evangelist in-breds and Fox-fed yokels, when the media reinforces the stereotype.
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Opinions
Where I’m Coming From
Southerners routinely get trashed up north, where they’re either derided as racists or hayseeds, or the offspring of siblings.