Barb, aka @greyhoundfanatic.bsky.social, off to her volunteer gig at the Memphis Public Library used-book store. #readbannedbooks

8th best album of 1978. #pereubu #themoderndance

RIP to our fifth and final greyhound, the singular Hunter. #greyhound open.substack.com/pub/davidwes...

Hunter says good night, all. #greyhound

Sunday breakfast. #homeofthehams

That dog Hunter. #greyhound

In this week's Substack, those old devil blues... #deltablues #robertjohnson #mississippidelta #skipjames #charleypatton #southernlit 📚

A video for my forthcoming novel from @jacklegpress.bsky.social, available for preorder (signed copy! $18 paperback!) from Burke's Book Store in advance of Nov. 10 publication: www.burkesbooks.com/pages/books/... #southernfiction #books 📚 #newspapers #southernlit #burkesbookstore

Good dog, mostly. Interesting, always. #greyhound

Still running at 12 1/2. #greyhound

Hunter the greyhound in his weird glory. #greyhound

Today on Substack: That time John Prine made a record with Sam Phillips' sons (with a little help from Sam) in Memphis. Some critics didn't get it. It was a sublime ruckus and still is. Read, share, subscribe (it's free!) #johnprine #memphis #samphillips #pinkcadillac

Hunter at night. #greyhound

Still life with napping greyhound and snack dish. #greyhound

This week's Substack: Robert Johnson at the polo grounds. Robert Johnson, polka hound. Robert Johnson, blue yodeler. Oh, and Robert Johnson, Delta blues singer. Read, share, subscribe -- it's free! #robertjohnson #mississippidelta #mississippideltablues #blues #crossroads

Catfish vs. greyhound. Catfish by a whisker or greyhound by a nose? It's the greyhound! #newsport #greyhoundsmakegreatracers #greyhound

My copies of COME AGAIN NO MORE, my newspaper novel from @jacklegpress.bsky.social, have arrived. You can preorder in advance of Nov. 10 publication. bookshop.org/p/books/come... #preordernovel #southernlit #📚

Excerpt from COME AGAIN NO MORE, my newspaper novel from @jacklegpress.bsky.social. Available for preorder in advance of Nov. 10 publication. #fiction #fictionbooks #fictionwriter #novel #southernwriter #jacklegpress #newspapers #southernlit #southernfiction #burkesbookstore #preordernovel 📚

I wrote an essay about pitching literary fiction in an age when the average book in this country sells 100 copies, across all size presses. #books #SupportIndieBookstores #bookpreorder #southernliterature #southernlit #newspaper #jacklegpress #burkesbookstore #bookrecommendations #booklovers 📚

A quick video nod to my next novel, available for preorder (signed copy! $18 paperback!) from Burke's Book Store in advance of Nov. 10 publication: www.burkesbooks.com/pages/books/... #bookpreorder #southernliterature #southernlit #newspaper #memphis #jacklegpress #burkesbookstore #books

"Some Girls," orange vinyl from Holland, 1978.

Now reading: "The Hangman's Children," Donald Hays. A comic novel of American tumult, set in 1968, that has something to say about these times, too. #donaldhays

Current favorite album. Also, best cover. #sggoodman #plantingbythesigns #snappingturtle #kentucky #albumoftheyear2025 #vinyl

COME AGAIN NO MORE, my latest novel, my newspaper novel, is available for preorder in advance of Nov. 10 publication. Preorder a signed copy from Burke's Book Store: www.burkesbooks.com/pages/books/... #preordernovel #fiction #novel #jacklegpress #newspapers #southernlit #memphis 📚

COME AGAIN NO MORE, my new novel from @jacklegpress.bsky.social, is available for preorder at the usual places. Let me recommend Memphis’s Burke's Book Store for a signed copy in advance of the Nov. 10 pub date: www.burkesbooks.com/pages/books/... #fiction #jacklegpress #newspapers #preordernovel 📚

Today on Substack: Faulkner writes a short sentence. Really. Followed by a 63-word wonder he didn't so much write as unspool. Read, share, subscribe (it's free!) #WilliamFaulkner #southernliterature #South #readthesouth #southerngothic #yoknapatawpha #yoknapatawphacounty 📚

Today's Substack: a visit to the Mississippi Delta with Eudora Welty, Bob Dylan, Lewis Nordan, Son Volt and some ghosts. Enjoy, share, subscribe (it's free, as always). #mississippidelta #mississippideltablues #clarksdale #EudoraWelty #bobdylan #south #southernlit #southernfiction #readthesouth

"Was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day..." Today on my Substack, an ode to Bobbie Gentry. Read, share, subscribe (it's free!). #bobbiegentry #odetobilliejoe #southerngothic #americanfolk #mississippi #the3rdofjune #thethirdofjune #billiejoemcallister #tallahatchiebridge

Today's Substack: Wilson Pickett, Drive-By Truckers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rolling Stones, the Swampers, and a drunk guy in a lime-green El Camino. Read, share, subscribe (it's free!) #muscleshoals #muscleshoalssound #famestudios #DriveByTruckers #rollingstones #smallbatchfiction #southernfiction

That dog Hunter. #greyhound

The front porch sessions. Re-reading "The Orchard Keeper." #cormacmccarthy #southernlit #southernfiction

This week's Substack post: Cormac McCarthy chooses his words carefully and Bob Dylan lights out for the flats. It's le temps mort, where little happens but much is revealed. #cormacmccarthy #theorchardkeeper #southerngothic #southernfiction #southernlit #bobdylan #jacquesbecker #carsongs

Ivy could sing a little blues, all down low and scratchy, but she couldn’t go up high and moan like only Skip James and some ghosts could do.. Today on my Substack: some small-batch fiction. #south #southernlit #ivycoldwater #thecoldwatergirl #southernfiction #blues #skipjames #mississippidelta 📚

"It's gonna be a long Monday / Stuck like the tick of a clock that's come unwound again and again." -- John Prine. #greyhound

Hunter's day. #greyhound

Today on my Substack: A pilgrim, a failed poet, and an alligator walk into a story. #eudorawelty #barryhannah #williamfaulkner #dorisbetts #southernfiction #southerngothic #flanneryoconnor #southernlit #southernliterature #shortstories 📚

Now reading. Love the early sections on his newspaper days. #gaytalese #newyorktimes #newspapers

Shhh. Sleeping dog. #greyhound

I'd like to think this is a metaphor for something -- for hope, resilience, a coming season of renewal. But I think it's just nature being weird. Still, though, it's a nice diversion from thinking about those dangerous damn fools in D.C. #resist

Today on Substack: One song, in two versions, in a weary nod to all the damned rain we’ve had lately in these parts… #bobdylan #flattandscruggs #theband #dylanandtheband #downintheflood #crashonthelevee #basementtapes

That dog Hunter. #greyhound

These dangerous fools have now declared war on the humanities: "Latest Trump Cuts Threaten Southern Festival of Books." Join the fight to save book festivals and reading programs. Also the ones to save science, the rule of law, democracy, etc. 📚 #resist

Today's Substack: my favorite novel ('Suttree'), favorite writer (Faulkner) and favorite pirate (Dread Roberts). I also diss Hemingway. Read, share, subscribe -- it's free! #ernesthemingway #williamfaulkner #absalomabsalmom #cormacmccarthy #suttree #tommcguane #williamgay #southernfiction #books 📚

Paw pads. #greyhounds

Funny boy.

Today on my Substack: a few sentences to make you love Faulkner. Yes, love. Yes, Faulkner. Read, share, subscribe (it's free!) #williamfaulkner #southernlit #south #yoknapatawpha #southernfiction #writing #reading #southern #readmorefaulkner #substack #southbound

Today's Substack: A song-and-dance man named Dylan, and a protest singer named Henry Lee, arrested and charged with incitement, protest singing on an expired license, and dark sympathies. Read, share, subscribe (it's free!) #protest #ProtestTrump #protestsong #bobdylan #songanddance #EverybodyKnows

Happy St. Patrick's Day from Hunter, son of an Irish hound!

Sunday-morning Hunter. #greyhound

Great to hear Steve Stern talk about his latest novel, "A Fool’s Kabbalah," last night at @burkesbookstore.bsky.social in Memphis. #stevestern #burkesbookstore #memphisauthors