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  • Get It While It's Hot

    Gas Station, Roadside, and Convenience Cuisine in the U.S. South

    by Autumn Arnett, Bailey Benson, Peter Jay Ingrao, Jaime Cantrell, Joseph T. Carson, Bruce A. Craft, Khirsten Doolan, Na'Imah Ford, Mystery Harwood, Lucy M. Long, Emily Whittington, Psyche A. Williams-Forson ...
    Get It While It’s Hot brings together scholars, food writers, influencers, and even a CEO to discuss the phenomenon of eating by the side of the road. This innovative collection examines an increasingly commonplace belief across the U.S. South—that some of the best, most enjoyable food comes from places you would not expect: a gas station, the back of a pickup truck, or a ramshackle building made ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Marginalized

    Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region, and Gender

    by Casey Kayser ...
    Winner of the 2021 Eudora Welty PrizeIn contrast to other literary genres, drama has received little attention in southern studies, and women playwrights in general receive less recognition than their male counterparts. In Marginalized: Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region, and Gender, author Casey Kayser addresses these gaps by examining the work of southern women playwrights, making ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Small-Screen Souths

    Region, Identity, and the Cultural Politics of Television

    by Eric Gary Anderson, Bonnie Applebeet Cameron, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Matthew Dischinger, Ashli Dykes, Leigh H. Edwards, Sara K. Eskridge, Taylor Hagood, Robert W. Haynes, Robert Jackson, Casey Kayser, Jennie Lightweis-Goff, Tatiana McInnis, Monica Carol Miller, Stanley Orr, Jimmy Dean Smith, Mary Ann Wilson, Scott Romine ...
    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    As the first collection dedicated to the relationship between television and the U.S. South, Small-Screen Souths addresses the growing interest in how mass culture represents the region and influences popular perceptions of it. In sixteen essays divided into three thematic sections, scholars of southern culture analyze representations of the South in a variety of television shows spanning the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Carson McCullers in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Alison Graham-Bertolini, Casey Kayser ...
    Series series American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
    The contributors to this volume use diverse critical techniques to identify how Carson McCullers’ writing engages with and critiques modern social structures and how her work resonates with a twenty-first century audience. The collection includes chapters about McCullers’ fiction, autobiographical writing, and dramatic works, and is groundbreaking because it includes the first detailed scholarly ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

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  • This Is Where You Belong

    Finding Home Wherever You Are

    by Melody Warnick ...
    In the spirit of Gretchen Rubin’s megaseller The Happiness Project and Eric Weiner’s The Geography of Bliss, a journalist embarks on a project to discover what it takes to love where you liveThe average restless American will move 11.7 times in a lifetime. For Melody Warnick, it was move #6, from Austin, Texas, to Blacksburg, Virginia, that threatened to unhinge her. In the lonely aftermath of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Potlikker Papers

    A Food History of the Modern South

    by John T. Edge ...
    **“The one food book you must read this year."*—Southern LivingOne of Christopher Kimball’s Six Favorite Books About Food*A people’s history that reveals how Southerners shaped American culinary identity and how race relations impacted Southern food culture over six revolutionary decades**Like great provincial dishes around the world, potlikker is a salvage food. During the antebellum era, slave ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Mad Men, Mad World

    Sex, Politics, Style, and the 1960s

    Edited by Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Lilya Kaganovsky, Robert A. Rushing ...
    Since the show's debut in 2007, Mad Men has invited viewers to immerse themselves in the lush period settings, ruthless Madison Avenue advertising culture, and arresting characters at the center of its 1960s fictional world. Mad Men, Mad World is a comprehensive analysis of this groundbreaking TV series. Scholars from across the humanities consider the AMC drama from a fascinating array of ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Best American Food Writing 2020

    by J. Kenji López-Alt ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    The year's top food writing from writers who celebrate the many innovative, comforting, mouthwatering, and culturally rich culinary offerings of our country."These are stories about culture," writes J. Kenji López-Alt in his introduction. "About how food shapes people, neighborhoods, and history." This year's Best American Food Writing captures the food industry at a critical moment in history — ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Paris Is Burning

    A Queer Film Classic

    by Lucas Hilderbrand ...
    Series series Queer Film Classics
    Paris Is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1991) captures the energy, ambition, wit, and struggle of African-American and Latino participants in the 1980s New York drag ball scene. This book contextualizes the film within the longer history of drag balls, the practices of documentary, the fervor of the culture wars, and the development of queer theory and critical race studies. ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best American Food Writing 2022

    by Sohla El-Waylly, Silvia Killingsworth ...
    Series series Best American
    A collection of the year’s top food writing, selected by guest editor Sohla El-Waylly and series editor Silvia Killingsworth.Culinary creator, writer and community advocate, Sohla El-Waylly selects the best twenty articles published in 2021 that celebrate the many innovative, comforting, mouthwatering, and culturally rich culinary offerings of our country. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Nobody Is Supposed to Know

    Black Sexuality on the Down Low

    by C. Riley Snorton ...
    Since the early 2000s, the phenomenon of the “down low”—black men who have sex with men as well as women and do not identify as gay, queer, or bisexual—has exploded in news media and popular culture, from the Oprah Winfrey Show to R & B singer R. Kelly’s hip hopera Trapped in the Closet. Most down-low stories are morality tales in which black men are either predators who risk infecting their ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Hunger Like a Thirst

    From Food Stamps to Fine Dining, a Restaurant Critic Finds Her Place at the Table

    by Besha Rodell ...
    A witty and lively memoir from food writer and New York Times contributor Besha Rodell, (formerly) one of the world’s last anonymous restaurant criticsWhen Besha Rodell moved from Australia to the United States with her mother at fourteen, she was a foreigner in a new land, missing her friends, her father, and the food she grew up eating. In the years that followed, Rodell began waitressing and ... Read more

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