SElections from the DETOURIST

DISPATCHES FROM A DEEPER SOUTH TOUR TEN:

ADSX: Day Thirty-Seven by Pete Candler

Jasmine's Boyfriend Takes a Rest, but The Road Goes Ever On and On

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Katrina: The Final Season by Pete Candler

The last time a newspaper really mattered, and the heroes who knew it did

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ADSX: Day Five by Pete Candler

Rule No. 4: Always Stop for Coffee

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America is Made in the Curve by Pete Candler

The legacy of the People's Grocery Lynching in Memphis in 1892

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ADSX: Day Four by Pete Candler

There is something more terrifying than evil

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Safe Harbor by Pete Candler

On the Greatest Bookstore in Human History

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ADSX: Day Three by Pete Candler

Radical Contingency in Johnson County

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KKKU by Pete Candler

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ADSX: Day Two by Pete Candler

Mary Magdalene in Milly

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A TASTING MENU OF ESSAYS:

Closing Time in America by Pete Candler

The National Crack-Up that is Definitely Coming Soon. Eventually. Maybe. But Probably Not.

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Singing the Midnight Back to the Dawn by Pete Candler

The almost intolerable hope of Sam Cooke

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ADSX: Day One by Pete Candler

Augusta to Milledgeville, by way of Crazytown

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