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December 10th, 2009
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Author: Introducing: Odom Shiloh.
by Leonard Gill
When we meet Odom Shiloh, the middle-aged assistant to the assistant football coach at Frothmouth High School in the fictional town of Frothmouth, Arkansas (pop. 327), he’s enlisted his friend (an art historian turned private investigator named Blakey Flake) to find Odom’s 36-year-old sister, Bridget (aka, for 36 years, “Birdshit”). Bridget writes poetry. Bridget’s been dealt a horrible hand by a former boyfriend. And she’s run off with an 18-year-old Frothmouth High football star who happens to be black. (Odom…
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Michael Connors: back in the Caribbean.
by Leonard Gill
First, he was calling from his home on Deer Island, Maine, to let me know of his latest book. Then he was headed for the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany to publicize that book, and it wasn’t such a great time to talk. Then he was in transit again — on his way to Havana, where he has a house too (in addition to homes in New York and on St. Croix). But on his way to Cuba, I finally…
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William Ferris: in the field, a leader in his field.
by Leonard Gill
[image-1] A college professor once told William Ferris that Ferris had “more degrees than a thermometer.” And to prove the point, consider Ferris’ schooling at Davidson College, Northwestern University, Trinity College (Dublin), and the University of Pennsylvania. Now factor in Ferris’ teaching career — at Jackson State University, Yale University, the University of Mississippi, and the University of North Carolina, where he’s today a professor of history and senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American…
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The making of a Memphis radical.Leonard Gill
by Leonard Gill
[image-1] You’re a leader. You’ve always been a leader,” Will Ella Bailey recently said to her son D’Army. “You were chosen, and there was nothing you could’ve done about it.” Bailey, a lawyer and recently retired Circuit Court judge in Memphis, has a slightly different take on the matter. “As I look back on my life,” Bailey said in a phone interview with the Flyer, “what I did, the things I’ve done, did come naturally. But I didn’t set out…
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