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Winter, Chicago, 1920: They planned to meet at midnight. They would run off together and marry. But something went wrong.

A story of two lovers . . .

For young Nathan Devlin and Julia Tharpe, that missed meeting cleaves their relationship and sunders their lives. Nathan goes to prison, bitter, blaming Julia for lack of resolve. Julia continues with her career, equally bitter, blaming him for unfaithfulness.

Years later, Julia learns the truth of that night's failed elopement, and of the deception behind it. She sets out to find Nathan, now an escaped fugitive. Her...

Welcome to Coopers Hollow. It's not your ordinary small town.

You're just passing through a little Indiana town in the 1950's when your car breaks down. What to do? Fortunately, a helpful old fellow offers to take you in hand. He'll direct you to the service station. Show you the town. Introduce its citizens. Tell you about its history. Even buy you a beer. What do you say?

You say yes. And with that, the talkative fellow regales you with stories about the townsfolk. Stories about ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary situations. Stories that slip just a little over...

Daniel Cross Turner has made a key contribution to the critical study and appreciation of the diverse field of contemporary Southern poetics. Southern Crossings crosses a gulf in contemporary poetry criticism while using the idea or ideas, many and contrary of Southernness to appraise poetries created from the profuse, tangled histories of the region. Turner s close readings are dynamic, even lyrical. He offers a new understanding of rhythm s central place in contemporary poetry while considering the work of fifteen poets. Through his focus on varied yet interwoven forms of cultural...

Depictions of the undead in the American South are not limited to our modern versions, such as the vampires in True Blood and the zombies in The Walking Dead. As Undead Souths reveals, physical emanations of southern undeadness are legion, but undeadness also appears in symbolic, psychological, and cultural forms, including the social death endured by enslaved people, the Cult of the Lost Cause that resurrected the fallen heroes of the Confederacy as secular saints, and mourning rites revived by Native Americans forcibly removed from the American Southeast.

To capture the manifold forms...