The Tobacco Barn
“How Do You Like Your Blue-Eyed Boy, Mr. Death?” from e.e. cummings poem to Harry Crews tattoo!
Welcome to English 1000: Rough South: Grit Lit Composition. This semester we will be reading writers, some have been classified as “Grit Lit” while others fall more in the realm of Southern literature. Some of the topics we will consider writing our major essays on range from Alienation, the Grotesque, Grit, and what defines family in stories by writers like Dorothy Allison, Larry Brown, Harry Crews, Clyde Edgerton, Randall Kenan, Flannery O’Connor and many others. Come be a part of our discussion about all things southern from novels and short stories to music and film. And don’t worry about wiping the grit off your shoes when you come in. My friend Dave, who used to live in a tobacco barn-turned-apartment knows a 95 year old man who might be able to fix you up with moonshine from Bladen county, North Carolina. I’m just saying.
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Lies! He’s actually dead, so there’s a limited supply. I can get you collard greens all winter, however.