Sitting Up With the Dead: A Storied Journey through the American South
Pamela Petro Arcade Publishing ($25.95) by Lynnell Edwards In Sitting Up With the Dead Pamela Petro has undertaken a Chaucer-esque pilgrimage through the American South to report on the culture and the people who preserve it through traditions of storytelling. Hoping to understanding how the South has become that great national "Other," she explains in […]