I’ve been trying to lay off my rants lately about signs that drive me nuts (see Signs), but after seeing a sign at the local Home Depot that’s been up there for months, I think I’m back on the beat. There’s a few offenders I’ve been eyeballing anyway. Now, of course, I will be…
A sweet spread
Louisiana Cultural Vistas reprinted “The Record Man,” one of the pieces from Angola to Zydeco, in its summer edition. Check it out. It’s a beautiful 10-page spread. And strangely enough, two years ago, LCV published a piece about Louisiana fiddlers by Ron Yule which featured my grandfather, Roy “Peanut” Conn. Look for the article on…
A letter from Larry Brown
A couple of years before Larry Brown died, I struck up a correspondence with him. After reading and reviewing Billy Ray’s Farm for The Times of Acadiana in Lafayette, I sent the review to Brown at his home outside of Oxford, Mississippi. I was surprised to receive a letter from him, so I wrote to…
Recent reviews
John Sledge recently gave Angola to Zydeco a rather sweet review in Mobile, Alabama’s Press Register (“Newspaper’s loss is book readers’ gain”): Fuller has an unadorned and straight-ahead style and an admirable ability to get out of his subjects’ way and let them do the talking. In short, there’s no writer’s ego here, and it…