By Gary Lloyd I never knew that an elderly woman frantically filling a notebook with stories and tips in black ink could take me back in time. She knew an … Continue reading The powerful force of nostalgia
Tag: Rick Bragg
Reading long books
By Gary Lloyd I’ve got a heap of long, unread books that, if I stacked them up and stood on the top one, I could clean the leaves from my … Continue reading Reading long books
Understanding a place like Mississippi
By Gary Lloyd I’ve spent quite a bit of time swimming deep in the words Henry David Thoreau penned about Walden Pond, the novella Ernest Hemingway authored about a man … Continue reading Understanding a place like Mississippi
Making sense of the muse
I’ve heard Pulitzer Prize winner and renowned Alabama author Rick Bragg speak several times about “the muse,” that source of creativity a writer relies on to put words on a … Continue reading Making sense of the muse
Pretty Words, Pretty Birds
Rick Bragg called it “pretty writing.” The Pulitzer Prize winner and University of Alabama writing professor, the one who made his name in the writing world at the foot of … Continue reading Pretty Words, Pretty Birds
Lasting Lines
You know that great one-liner from your favorite movie? Or how you can quote seemingly every episode of Friends? It happens with books, too. For whatever reasons, these pages are standing … Continue reading Lasting Lines
Professor Pulitzer
This story is the epilogue to Gary Lloyd’s book, Valley Road: Uplifting Stories from Down South. Get it here. Most people know him through his poignant books on his … Continue reading Professor Pulitzer
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