Dispatches - Page 20 of 42

Cormac McCarthy’s Meridian of Darkness

By James Calemine Cormac McCarthy spent years living in cheap motels writing classic novels that no one bought such...

By James Calemine Originally captured to two-track digital audio tape straight from the board, the enclosed recordings...

On Tuesday, November 20, I revisited Old Car City in White, Georgia. Old Car City stands as the largest junkyard in...

Most of these songs (recorded from 1994-2006) on Blues Sweet Blues can be heard for the first time. Only Music Maker’s...

Born on March 9, 1930, in Fort Worth, Texas, Ornette Coleman exists as one of America’s greatest jazzmen. With musical...

Kentucky girl Ashley Judd earned a Saturn Award nomination for William Friedkin’s Bug. Judd plays a lonely waitress,...

When he was alive, Mississippi painter Walter Anderson lived as a recluse in his Ocean Springs home. Nature served as...

Carla Thomas–the great Rufus Thomas’ daughter–experienced a first rate musical experience growing up in Memphis,...

Soul legend Al Green needs no introduction… Lay It Down marks Green’s 29th studio album. On this disc, Green employed...

Ben Ratliff wastes no words in this book about John Coltrane. Ratliff wrote about Coltrane’s music in the first half...

Louisiana writer James Lee Burke’s 2007 book of short stories, Jesus Out to Sea, does not disappoint. This collection...

Cormac McCarthy’s book, The Sunset Limited, stands as a novel in dramatic form with only two characters--a “Black” man...