1PatrickMurtha
New here. Pocket bio: Retired humanities teacher, residing in Tlaxcala, Mexico, with two dogs and six indoor cats. Passionate about literature, history, philosophy, classical music and opera, jazz, cinema, and similar subjects. Nostalgic guy. Politically centrist. BA in American Studies from Yale; MAs in English and Education from Boston University. Born in northern New Jersey. Have lived and worked in San Francisco, Chicago, northern Nevada, northeast Wisconsin, South Korea.
I suppose this counts as a group revival, since the official listing here is “Dormant”, but only since 2021, so that’s not too long. In any case, as I’m getting involved in LT Groups again, if the group I want exists and doesn’t seem beyond resuscitation, I’m going to go ahead and post in it. I’d rather do that, using an existing shell and membership, than start a new group. And Southern literature is a great topic!
Anyway, I’m currently reading T.S. Stribling’s The Forge (1931), the first in his Vaiden Trilogy, which as many of you probably know Faulkner bought and read as it appeared; it was an obvious influence on his own Snopes Trilogy. Stribling is underrated.
I suppose this counts as a group revival, since the official listing here is “Dormant”, but only since 2021, so that’s not too long. In any case, as I’m getting involved in LT Groups again, if the group I want exists and doesn’t seem beyond resuscitation, I’m going to go ahead and post in it. I’d rather do that, using an existing shell and membership, than start a new group. And Southern literature is a great topic!
Anyway, I’m currently reading T.S. Stribling’s The Forge (1931), the first in his Vaiden Trilogy, which as many of you probably know Faulkner bought and read as it appeared; it was an obvious influence on his own Snopes Trilogy. Stribling is underrated.
2PatrickMurtha
Erskine Caldwell was one of the first authors associated with the “Southern Gothic” tag. I read God’s Little Acre a number of years back and found it brutally funny; now I’m starting on his other most famous novel, Tobacco Road. Caldwell is not exactly politically correct - no writer who specializes in the grotesque is - and really upsets some readers.
