In addition to praising Balloon Pop Outlaw Black, The New Yorker says that Patricia Lockwood “is one of the few people who makes Twitter seem like it needed inventing.”
From January 11 to 19, the evening of storytelling and music will appear in Chattanooga, Huntsville, Murfreesboro, Nashville, Memphis, Booneville, Oxford, Birmingham, Montevallo, Montgomery, and finish in Carrollton, Georgia. Click here to see further details and to purchase tickets.
The Unchained Tour arrives in Savannah on Saturday, September 22. At the moment, it is sold out.
The Moth and The Unchained Tour aren’t George’s only current efforts to promote a culture of storytelling. He’s also producing Helen & Edgar, the upcoming one-man show by native Savannahian Edgar Oliver at Theatre 80 in NYC.
On Tuesday evening, Luis Alberto Urrea (The Devil’s Highway, Queen of America, and a dozen other books) gave the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home’s 4th Ashley and Terry Ursrey Memorial Lecture at Trinity United Methodist Church in Savannah.
The first three Ursrey Memorial Lectures were given by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham (The Hours), man of letters Alan Gurganus (Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All), and National Book Award winner Jaimy Gordon (Lord of Misrule). Urrea seems like a great author to extend that impressive list.
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Any time I think of Maurice Sendak, I have vivid memories — quick, sharp ones — of our house on Knollwood Street in Frankfort, Kentucky.
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Savannah can claim George Dawes Green as our own, right? The Brunswick-area native and longtime NYC resident has some deep roots here. George is a novelist (The Juror, Ravens, and others) and founder of The Moth, which has revived the…
In her essay “King of the Birdsâ€, primarily about life with peacocks, O’Connor begins by talking about a bit of childhood fame.
My Tuesday City Talk column is going to be about the lower than anticipated retail sales associated with the Savannah Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon, and for Do on Thursday, my Man About Town column is about Saturday’s No Control Festival.…
In the final story of The Unchained Tour on Friday night, Savannah native Edgar Oliver told stories of growing up here, painting an image of himself as a child desperate to understand his real and imagined worlds. Near the end…
