Jas Faulkner by Jas Faulkner A quick tip of the visor is in order to the former classmate whose mother was a school volunteer. Otherwise, this incident would have been lost in the mists of time and alkali dust. It was sometime around Columbus Day that Bobby Curtis ruined the best class ever for Mister Randall’s 6A … Read more
by Jas Faulkner Laurie Cabot acted upon the same difficult decision that many store owners have had to make in the last decade. She closed the brick and mortar version of her business, “The Official Witch Shoppe“, also known as “The Cat, the Crow and the Crown”. Wags will snark that practitioners of the fabulous … Read more
by Jas Faulkner Joe Posnanski’s latest effort must have looked like a dream assignment to anyone with an interest in sports, especially college football. All he had to do was spend two years talking to a highly esteemed coach, his family, friends, coworkers, and past and present players. His subject was lauded as someone who … Read more
By Jas Faulkner One of the advantages of having friends who work in different fields is that one person’s talking shop is another person’s entertainment for the evening. Two friends from way back now run a UBS somewhere in Mississippi. It doesn’t matter how stupid the tort, how outrageous the fortune of those who call … Read more
by Jas Faulkner S., a college friend, asked me if I would like to pick up a few boxes of her discards to donate to the Samaritan Center and/or use for Bookcrossing drops. Packed in one box was a row of Kurt Vonnegut novels and essay collections. This little section of mass market paperbacks included … Read more
by Jas Faulkner The Southern US as it exists in the minds of anyone who lives elsewhere is a collection of tortured memories of required texts from high school, stereotypes that have been perpetuated by the media, and assumptions of regressive attitudes towards everything. Thinking, reading, writing southerners everywhere know that there is more … Read more
by Jas Faulkner At a recent gathering of writers in Nashville, the conversation turned to the recent popularity of E. L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey Trilogy. Everyone weighed in on their ability to write erotica and whether they felt it would hurt or hinder a writer’s credibility. During the conversation, Trisha, who was one … Read more
by Jas Faulkner The love of learning, the sequestered nooks… I wanted to find a place to sit and look through the books that intrigued me while browsing the stacks. My choices were pretty limited: Taking the armload of books I was deciding upon to the coffee shop area was a non-starter. I wasn’t about … Read more
