Posts Tagged ‘H.L. Mencken’
A Better Book There Never Was: Jim Tully’s “Shanty Irish”
If you ever watched Ken Burns’ PBS documentary series about the Civil War, you might recall hearing excerpts read from a book called “Co. Aytch.” “Co. Aytch”: A Side Show of the Big Show (the title refers to the author’s unit–Company H) is the memoir of an eloquent and perceptive Confederate soldier named Sam Watkins. Margaret…
Read MorePublished Eighty Years Ago: Jesse Stuart’s “Man with a bull-tongue Plow.”
Today—October 14, 2014–marks the eightieth anniversary of the publication of Jesse Stuart’s rambling and powerful collection of 703 sonnets called Man with a bull-tongue Plow. Yes, you read that number correctly—703! Stuart was a tall and robust man from the hills of Kentucky who wrote like a force of nature. He was born in Greenup…
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