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Book Review. Rube Tube: CBS and Rural Comedy in the Sixties

2022 August 24 by pdh513

Rube Tube: CBS and Rural Comedy in the Sixties. By Sara K. Eskridge. (University of Missouri Press, 2018, Pp. 242) Reviewed by Tim G. Nutt Some of the most fondly remembered television shows in syndication today are the rural comedies which aired on the Columbia Broad-casting System (CBS) during the mid-late 1960s. In Rube Tube: CBS and Rural Comedy in the Sixties, Sara … [Read more...] about Book Review. Rube Tube: CBS and Rural Comedy in the Sixties

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Book Review: Scattered Lights

2021 January 19 by pdh513

Scattered Lights. By Steve Wiegenstein. (Cornerpost Press 2020 Pp. 164) Reviewed by Craig Albin We have all seen them. Approaching a small town by night, we notice first the lights that spangle homes and businesses, and perhaps we project upon their luster the safety and comforts of community, the consoling promise of an outpost in the darkness. Yet in the new story … [Read more...] about Book Review: Scattered Lights

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Book Review: Lake of the Ozarks, My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America

2020 October 29 by pdh513

Lake of the Ozarks: My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America. By Bill Geist. (Grand Central Publishing, 2019, Pp. 208). Reviewed by Thomas A. Peters This is a very funny book, but also unsettling in several ways. As I read, I wondered if the world needs yet another memoir about the aching youth of a semi-privileged white male in America in the mid-twentieth century. … [Read more...] about Book Review: Lake of the Ozarks, My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America

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Book Review: The Pain Trader and Other Poems

2020 July 25 by pdh513

The Pain Trader and Other Poems. By James Fowler. (Golden Antelope Press, 2020, Pp. 77) Reviewed by Terrell Tebbetts James Fowler writes poems about his state and region, the little postage stamp of a world that he knows well. He succeeds when he offers apt descriptive and narrative portraits of characters and settings and then leads readers into new understandings of … [Read more...] about Book Review: The Pain Trader and Other Poems

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Book Review: Arkansas Travelers

2020 May 18 by pdh513

Arkansas Travelers: Geographies of Exploration and Perception, 1804-1834. By Andrew J. Milson. (The University of Arkansas Press, 2019, Pp. 277) Reviewed by Jason McCollom “Mapping the perceptions of the travelers has illustrated the places experienced and perceived by these men rather than simply the spaces they traversed. This geographical focus on the history of … [Read more...] about Book Review: Arkansas Travelers

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