Yellowhammer Press

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.  Based on one of Faulkner’s [...]

In a review aptly titled Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching, philosopher and critic (and a man upon whose work much of my graduate studies orbited) Terry Eagleton says the following of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion: “Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have [...]

Like many of its fans, I first came across The Accountant after learning it was the inspiration for “Sinkhole,” a song by Athens, GA band The Drive-By Truckers.  I tracked down the film (no easy feat at the time — it’s a relatively  hard thing to get a hold of, especially now that the Ginny [...]