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Marlin Barton is the first recipient of the Capote Prize for short fiction. He teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He also teaches creative writing in a program for juvenile offenders called Writing Our Stories, created by the Alabama Writers’ Forum.
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Children of Dust shows how the unsettled questions from the past carry forward, creating searches for answers generations later
The breaks and turns give a vivid sense of how history is both made and survived.
With riveting prose, Barton proves he is a master storyteller
An immersive story that asks the hardest questions and answers them with powerful and propulsive historical fiction.
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A War of Sections
A War of Sections: How Deep South Political Suppression Shaped Voting Rights in America By Steve Suitts NewSouth Books, an imprint of the University of Georgia Press, 2024 Hardcover: $120.95; Paperback: $36.95; eBook: $36.95 Genre: Alabama History Reviewed by Edward Journey In the early 2000s, I heard an interview with the U.S. Congressman from the Seventh District of Alabama, representing Alabama’s Black Belt. According to this congressman, if Alabama’s Black Belt counties were removed from the statistical data, Alabama would rank #7 nationally in productivity, #11 in new jobs, and #12 in health care. He referred to the Black Belt region as a “statistical anchor” and concluded, “But, it’s not going away.” Those statistics haunt me to this day, and after reading A War of Sections: How Deep South Political Suppression Shaped Voting Rights in America by Steve Suitts, they start to make more sense. Steve Suitts, an Alabama native and the founding director of the Alabama Civil Liberties Union, is an adjunct professor at the Institute for Liberal Arts at Emory University and wrote a definitive [...]
