The only thing most people might know about the Comanche Indian tribe is the climactic scene in the 1976 Clint Eastwood film The Outlaw Josey Wales. You know: when Clint, […]
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Book Fest: Altamaha Drifting
Janisse Ray first gained a devoted following with her bestseller Ecology of a Cracker Childhood. It’s a heartfelt ode to the beauty and importance of the indigenous and nearly extinct […]
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His own private Vietnam
The Matterhorn is a mountain in the Alps. But in Karl Marlantes’ novelized account of his years as a Marine in Vietnam, it’s the code name of a hill to […]
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Did somebody say ‘Festival’?
SINCE YOU might expect to read about politics in this space, let’s get this out of the way first: There are many people – more than a few, in fact […]
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Song of the South
San Francisco Bay native Marc Smirnoff became a Southerner by accident in 1989, after his car broke down in Mississippi. He took a job in an Oxford book store and […]
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Sticks, Stones and a better America
A little to the south of Macon, near the town of Bullard, Georgia, there’s a 2,500 acre tree farm called Charlane Plantation. Here, Chuck Leavell and his wife Rose Lane […]
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Sailing into history
Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail around the world alone. Geoffrey Wolfe has written a new biography about him, The Hard Way Around. Not only is the book […]
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Digital love story
The Savannah Book Festival doesn’t happen until the weekend of Feb. 18-19, but we wanted to give you a sneak peek to get you in the mood. This week we […]
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The truth shall set you free
Self–discovery is the key to contentment, Bertice Berry believes. And although it’s a bumpy road, it’s one we all must travel if we are to understand both ourselves and our […]
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Too many good choices at Book Festival
IN SUMMER 2005, I sat across a table from a middle-aged white guy, transplanted to Savannah from Atlanta, wearing owlish eyeglasses, a seersucker suit and a bow tie. He wanted […]
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Two masters of economy and grace
THE WRITTEN WORD IS Paul Hemphill’s lifeblood. The former newspaper man (he wrote a daily column in The Atlanta Journal for years) and celebrated author has published 15 books to […]
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History Lessons
LOOKING FOR INFORMATION on Georgia history? 2008 seems the perfect year for historical pursuits, since Georgia Historical Society (GHS) has dedicated most of February to celebrating Georgia’s 275th anniversary. In […]