Yellowhammer Press

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 in their collection The Cult [...]

When, I wonder, did it become commonplace with Southern writers to center a body of work in one specific small town?  Wendell Berry has his Port William. Ron Rash had his Cliffside.  I suspect it all started with Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha.  George Singleton has recently given us Forty-Five, South Carolina.
In The Half-Mammals of Dixie, Singleton unpacks [...]