Yellowhammer Press

Once again, one of the best portrayals of rural Southern life comes from Ginny Mule Pictures.  The production studio behind the Oscar-winning short film The Accountant (and very possibly my favorite film of all time), led primarily by actor and director Ray McKinnon and actor Walton Goggins, is now responsible for the understated but forceful [...]

Julie Püttgen’s Cloudmapping series is a spontaneous reaction to “a set of givens.” Exploring the revelatory aspects of artistic creation and the narratives that inadvertently stem from the creative act, Püttgen’s paintings are the nucleus of the multimedia collaboration Unless & Until, with text by JS van Buskirk, music by James R. Carlson, and [...]

At best, Erskine Caldwell is a poor man’s William Faulkner.  His early novels, which somehow maintain a toehold in the canon of Southern Literature, are extensively populated with caricatures of rural Southerners so over the top in their grotesqueness that they are barely readable.
In Tobacco Road, his most well-known work, the Lesters, headed by the [...]