Producing stories and poems may not be a good way to make a living, but it's a wonderful way to make a life.

There’s a quality here I tap into. It’s about the light, the color, the people. Relationship and kindness are valued highest.

Cy Twombly’s paintings are perhaps best understood as a type of visual poetry. Fragmented, discontinuous, yet rich in information and deeply evocative, they speak to us in a voice beyond...

I watch the old man keeping score a few rows down, a few seats south here at the new McCormick Field, each pitch, each out, each hit, each run recorded in those blue boxes whose empty...

Cobb found the crack in the American psyche where athletic competition confuses itself with warfare, and he pushed until it was just wide enough to let him through.

He tries to back up, find the tunnel he just came from and worm his way to the entrance. Arms straight out in front, feeling blindly, he hits wall and works his way along until he feels an...

These roadside proclamations are simple, pragmatic forms of communication. But they seem to have an underlying motive, to influence behavior in some way—to divert, tempt, convert,...

For me, the sombrero is a powerful symbol of the South and a reminder that the commercialized and hybrid South has always been my South.

The melting pot in which southern food has simmered for decades, if not centuries, has always been seasoned by global cuisines.

Despite the fact that the myriad musical and social strands that ultimately coincided to give rise to the Beach and Shag Music phenomena are hydra-headed, murky, and ambiguous, the oft-told...

An invasion occurred from the late fifties through the sixties in the southern states of North and South Carolina. Hordes of kids stormed the beaches, not with guns or cannon, but with...

Kerala’s backwaters—fresh far from the sea, brackish near—also boast fish, and our houseboat passed many a hopeful man hovering over the surface with a crossbow or homemade rod.