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 [...]

There is no monolith of Southern literature.  We’re not all Faulkners, or Wolfes, or McCullers or Weltys, though most readers of Southern work  know those names by heart as part of the Greatest Hits of Southern Literature.  The casual reader often regards Southern writing not simply as the product of a region but as a [...]

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 [...]