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September, 2000 Vol. 1, No. 7 |
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Recently
I had the occasion to pick up the book,
Noodling for Flatheads,
(Scribner, 2000) by Burkhard Bilger. It
represented the narration of Bilger, as a man who traveled around the
South exploring such time-honored traditions as moonshining and
cockfighting, coonhunting and, of course – “noodling.”
Noodling, by the way, is the act of sticking your hand into the
water and letting a catfish grab it.
Then you shove your hand down it’s throat and yank it out of the
water. No sport for the faint
of heart, you may note!
On Broadway this week you will find the stage productions of Aida and Jekyll & Hyde. On Off-Broadway this week you will find the stage productions of A Lesson Before Dying and Dinner with Friends. What do each of these productions have in common? Each originated in a southern regional theatre.
One day I was surfing the internet, as we all do on occasion, when I came across a site in Arkansas. It was a writer’s site, and there was an advertisement that immediately caught my eye. It was a small piece, perhaps a paragraph or two, written by a lady who was going to begin an advice column for writers. The name of the new column and site was to be called Ask the Author.
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1999-2000 Joyce Dixon, Southern Scribe |
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