Tag: Louisiana
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François Marcantel Immigrates to Louisiana
Okay, so this isn’t strictly speaking a piece about writing and/or books, but I am a Southerner with a legacy of literary compatriots (Faulkner, Welty, O’Connor, Lee (a couple of those), Capote, etc.; and you all have read them – right?), so this puts the topic at hand in the ballpark, more or less. You…
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My Hometown
This piece is more than a decade old, but the sentiments expressed within it remain the same. An inveterate editor, I’ve tweaked it slightly. A few days ago two young women who grew up Kinder, the small town in southwestern Louisiana where I also was born and spent my childhood, decided to create a Facebook page dedicated…
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