Introduction to “The Sealion Hunter”
Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas was a Haida speaking mythteller, born around 1851 in the Haida village of Qaysun, “Sealion Town.” It is an empty beachfront now, but it was home, in the early nineteenth . . .
Whenever I happen to meet and talk with people who are complete strangers to me but who know me, insofar as one can, only through my writings, they almost always say that they’re surprised (and perhaps relieved) to find that . . .
A. J. Liebling’s account of Louisiana politics, The Earl of Louisiana, opens with the observation that “Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavour with every hundred yards away from the patch.” Most writers attempting to . . .