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The Oxford American's Best of the South 2008 is upon us!

The Oxford American is back and it's back with a vengeance. Their Best of South issue just hit newsstands, and it features a new short story that I wrote about Shreveport and the mythological redheaded flying children who took over the town in the 80s. The cover girl photo by Saverio Truglia could actually be one of the characters from the story.
    In fact, this short story is one of the favorite things that I've ever written. I particularly love the illustration that Ryan Heshka did of the main character and his abandoned babies.
    But if promiscuous super heroes and flying babies aren't your thing, there's  Roy Blount, Jr, Brad Land Pia Ehrhardt, and Louisiana artist Bryan LeBoeuf to delight and inspire you with their various talents.
     But just look at this illustration for my story The Pentecostal Home for Flying Children and tell me you don't need a subscription to this great magazine.

Ah, Galisteo and Madrid

 

Galisteo means "village of many names."

The hot new double-secret getaway is Galisteo, New Mexico. If you want to get off the grid, eat way too much good food, and slow down so that you can remember who you are, this is the place to go. The Galisteo Inn. 300 year-old rustic perfection with cottonwood trees older than God. It's right next door to Tom Ford's Ranch and Judge Reinhold's adobe hideout, tucked away on the winding green oasis that is the Galisteo River. This inn has been lauded by The New York Times, Vogue, Bon Apetit, Condé Nast Traveller, LA Times, Outside, and GQ. If you need to get away, you need to stay here.

The Pentecostal Home for Flying Children Illustration

This is the illustration for my forthcoming short story, The Pentecostal Home for Flying Children, rendered by the illustrious illustrator, Chris Burnam.

If there is any question on how much this Thursday Night will rock, Trish Murphy will knock it right out of you.

Utter Brilliance

Just in case you don't know what the above is spoofing. Here's the original.

Jesus, Don't Cry. It's Wilco Wednesday

Shreveport Homeboy, Jeffery Goodman, blows it up at the AFI Dallas Film Festival

Jefffery Goodman (a friend of my little brother's from high school) takes the AFI Dallas Film Festival by storm. The buzz on this film is tremendous. I'm going to the screening on April 4th thanks to Jeffery's largesse.

Aside from being a bad-ass filmmaker, what I love is Jeffery's DYI ethos.
Dude ended up raising all the money for Lullaby himself, selling the film in $50,000 units to private investors in his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana. He believed it would take this level of freedom to make a movie that he felt was slightly different than most things currently being made.

"With Lullaby, I wanted to do certain things that weren't necessarily in fashion.  I wanted to make a slow, quiet genre piece that was sincere (rather than ironic) and very human.  And, in many ways, I wanted to make it in the naturalistic style that I associated with some of my favorite American films from the seventies." Check out his film's website by clicking here.