http://www.yellowhammerpress.com An online hub for contemporary Southern art, Southern literature, and Southern culture. Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Renowned artist Cliffton Peacock has joined us here at Yellowhammer Press, adding his muted, eerie portraits to the eclectic YHP mix. Relying on images emerging straight from his imagination, Peacock avoids detail and instead lays down his subjects in broad raw strokes. The hushed blue and green backdrops are subdued ... http://www.yellowhammerpress.com/2010/02/21/new-yhp-artist-cliffton-peacock/ Blizzards be damned.  Nothing warms the soul like Southern food.  Cornbread and peas, greens, fried chicken, and sweet potatoes will cure any ailment and drive the cold from your bones.  The Southern Foodways Alliance, a wonderful organization, has produced numerous short documentaries on Southern foodways and folk culture.  "Buttermilk ... http://www.yellowhammerpress.com/2010/02/10/a-short-thursday-things-we-like-for-2-11-2010/ Dear Walker, I couldn't be more pleased at the acceptance of your novel, though I had no doubt about it ever since I read the opening pages.  What I hope now is that you'll come off the notion that you don't want to go on with the work.  The novel is ... http://www.yellowhammerpress.com/2010/01/26/the-distance-between-two-giants-shelby-foote-and-walker-percy/ One of our very own, Jane Allen Nodine, presents a new exhibit of her encaustic art  at the Myst Contemporary Gallery in Spartanburg, SC.  The exhibit opens today (1.21) and runs through February 16.  If you're in the area, show some support! The Appalachian Photographers Project features 18 photographers from the ... http://www.yellowhammerpress.com/2010/01/20/thursday-things-we-like-for-1-21-09/ Much of Faulkner's work is, arguably, unfilmable.  Rendering Go Down, Moses or As I Lay Dying on screen would simply show them as narratives, unable to properly convey the depth of characterization and power of his characters' internal monologues.  1958's The Long, Hot Summer, however, attempts a more modest feat.  ... http://www.yellowhammerpress.com/2010/01/18/faulkner-on-film-the-long-hot-summer/ The black eyed peas and turnip greens have settled and the new year is upon us.  YHP is growing and we're looking for contributors.  Brannon and I were exceptionally busy at the end of last year, and as a result we didn't have enough time to devote to this site.  ... http://www.yellowhammerpress.com/2010/01/03/a-brand-new-year-spread-the-word/ At the moment, I'm somewhere over what I believe is Pennsylvania, happily on my way out of New York and into Atlanta, and from there on my way home to north Alabama.  The view is wonderful -- the snowbound landscape mimics Andrew Wyeth's subtle pallet of gentle browns, greys, blues, ... http://www.yellowhammerpress.com/2009/12/23/2010-looking-forward/ George Singleton is man, myth, legend, and possibly the greatest all-around son-of-a-bitch the South has ever produced.  I've written briefly about his recent collection The Half Mammals of Dixie and recently finished his delirious novel Work Shirts for Mad Men. The Southeast Review has a collection of anecdotes about Singleton ... http://www.yellowhammerpress.com/2009/12/02/thursday-things-we-like-for-12-2-09/ 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 ... http://www.yellowhammerpress.com/2009/11/30/you-cant-go-home-again-that-evening-sun/ 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 ... http://www.yellowhammerpress.com/2009/11/12/two-new-artists-julie-puttgen-and-carrie-mcgee/