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Southern Noir
Southern noir is a genre of crime fiction set in the American South. It is considered a subgenre of noir fiction and often deals with themes related to poverty, racism, and violence. Terminology Southern noir is sometimes also called "rural noir", "country noir", or "grit lit". Characteristics Southern noir is a subgenre of crime fiction, specifically noir fiction. It is typically written from the point of view of a character who is a perpetrator, victim, or investigator of a crime. It is characterized by its focus on the setting of the American South, but can more broadly include the South, the Ozarks, Appalachia, the Midwest and the Southwestern United States. It typically takes place in rural settings, with vivid, poetic descriptions of landscape and place. These settings typically incorporate Southern Gothic aesthetics, and explore elements of religion and the supernatural. Southern noir stories can take place in the present day or in the past. The narratives and charact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Panowich
Brian Panowich is an American author and journalist. Biography Panowich grew up an "Army brat" in Europe before moving to East Georgia. Before becoming a writer he was a firefighter in Augusta, Georgia. He is known for the novels ''Bull Mountain, Like Lions, and Hard Cash Valley''. ''Atlanta'' called ''Bull Mountain'' a brilliant debut novel. Panowich won the 2016 International Thriller Writers Award for Best First Novel and the Southern Book Prize for fiction. He is also a ''Los'' ''Angeles'' ''Times'' Book Prize finalist and the 2020 Georgia Author of the ear. ''El País'' called his work about adventures in the mountains of Georgia "country noir". ''Il Giornale'' also wrote about his work. The ''HuffPost'' interviewed him in 2015. In 2015 ITV Studios ITV Studios Limited is a British multinational television media company owned by British television broadcaster ITV plc. It handles production and distribution of programmes broadcast on the ITV network and third-par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Country For Old Men (novel)
''No Country for Old Men'' is a 2005 novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, who had originally written the story as a screenplay. The story occurs in the vicinity of the Mexico–United States border in 1980 and concerns an illegal drug deal gone wrong in the Texas desert back country. Owing to its origins as a screenplay, the novel has a simple writing style that differs from McCarthy's earlier novels. The book was adapted into a 2007 Coen brothers film of the same name, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Title The title of the novel comes from the first line of the 1926 poem " Sailing to Byzantium" by W. B. Yeats. Plot The plot follows the paths of the three characters set in motion by events related to a drug deal gone bad near the Mexican–American border in Terrell County in Texas. Llewelyn Moss stumbles across the aftermath of a drug deal gone awry that has left all but one dead. That man, barely alive, asks for water. Moss responds that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe R
Joe or JOE may refer to: Arts Film and television * Joe (1970 film), ''Joe'' (1970 film), starring Peter Boyle * Joe (2013 film), ''Joe'' (2013 film), starring Nicolas Cage, based on the novel ''Joe'' (1991) by Larry Brown * Joe (2023 film), an Indian film * Joe (TV series), ''Joe'' (TV series), a British TV series airing from 1966 to 1971 * ''Joe'', a 2002 Canadian animated short about Joe Fortes Music and radio * Joe (Inspiral Carpets song), "Joe" (Inspiral Carpets song) * Joe (Red Hot Chili Peppers song), "Joe" (Red Hot Chili Peppers song) * "Joe", a song by The Cranberries on their album ''To the Faithful Departed'' *"Joe", a song by PJ Harvey on her album ''Dry (album), Dry'' *"Joe", a song by AJR on their album ''OK Orchestra'' * Joe FM (other), any of several radio stations Computing * Joe's Own Editor, a text editor for Unix systems * Joe, an object-oriented Java computing framework based on Sun's Distributed Objects Everywhere project Media * Joe (website) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cold In July (novel)
''Cold in July'' is a 1989 American crime novel written by Joe R. Lansdale. A Cold in July (film), feature film adaptation starring Michael C. Hall was released in 2014. Plot summary Richard Dane awakens to find an intruder in his home and has to kill in self-defense. The problem is the intruder's father, Ben Russel, is a murderous ex-con bent on avenging his son's death. Richard, a small-time businessman, is in way over his head. Soon the two find out they're both being misled and manipulated and find themselves drawn into a web of psychopathic sex, violence, and corruption. It turns out that the man Richard killed was not Ben's son. So the two men join forces to learn both the identity of the man Richard shot and the fate of Ben's son. Editions Originally this book was issued as a stand-alone novel and as a set with the first Hap and Leonard novel Savage Season published by Mark V. Ziesing. It has been re-issued as a paperback by Warner Books in 1995 and by Phoenix Publicati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry McMurtry
Larry Jeff McMurtry (June 3, 1936March 25, 2021) was an American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the Old West or contemporary Texas.Hugh Rawson "Screenings," ''American Heritage'', April/May 2006. His novels included '' Horseman, Pass By'' (1962), '''' (1966), and '''' (1975), which were adapted into films. Films adapte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lonesome Dove Series
The ''Lonesome Dove'' series is a series of four Western fiction novels written by Larry McMurtry and the five television miniseries and television series based upon them. Overview The novels and miniseries follow the exploits of several members of the Texas Ranger Division from the time of the Republic of Texas up until the beginning of the 20th century. Recurring characters include Augustus "Gus" McCrae, Woodrow F. Call, Joshua Deets, Pea Eye Parker, Jake Spoon, Clara Forsythe Allen, Maggie Tilton, Lorena Wood Parker, Blue Duck, and Buffalo Hump. The series is set within historical events and characters, although they are often adapted or altered to accommodate the fictional timelines of the main characters. History Early days Larry McMurtry was born into a cattle ranching family, and some of his uncles were old enough to have participated in the end of the cattle driving days. Before railroads went across the country, cattle drives had to be put on in order to move cattle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelly J
Kelly may refer to: Art and entertainment * ''Kelly'' (Kelly Price album), 2011 * ''Kelly'' (Andrea Faustini album) * ''Kelly'' (musical), by Mark Charlap, 1965 * "Kelly" (song), by Kelly Rowland, 2018 * ''Kelly'' (film), Canada, 1981 * ''Kelly'' (Australian TV series) * ''Kelly'' (talk show), Northern Ireland * The Kelly Family, a music group * ''Kelly Kelly'' (TV series), US, 1998 * "Kelly", a 2019 single by Peakboy * Kelly West/ Zelena, a character on ''Once Upon a Time'' * Kelly (The Walking Dead), a character * Kelly (musician), a character portrayed by Liam Kyle Sullivan People * Kelly (given name) * Kelly (surname) * Clan Kelly, a Scottish clan * Kelly (murder victim) * Kelly (footballer, born 1975), Clesly Evandro Guimarães, Brazilian * Kelly (footballer, born 1985), Kelly Cristina Pereira da Silva, Brazilian * Kelly (footballer, born 1987), Kelly Rodrigues Santana Costa, Brazilian Places Australia * Kelly, South Australia, a locality * Kelly Basin, T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eli Cranor
Eli Cranor (born 1988) is an American author and former professional footballer. His debut novel, ''Don't Know Tough'', won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel. Biography Cranor was born in Forrest City, Arkansas on January 15, 1988, to Finley and Christy Cranor. He grew up in Russellville, Arkansas and graduated from Russellville High School. Cranor attended Florida Atlantic University and played on the school's football team for a season in 2006, after which he transferred to Ouachita Baptist University. While there, he majored in English literature. Cranor was recruited as a player-coach for the Swedish-American football team the Carlstad Crusaders and played with the team for nine months. After meeting his wife, he moved back to Arkansas. In Arkansas, Cranor began teaching at a high school in the Russellville School District, where he also coached the football team. In 2022, Cranor published his debut novel, ''Don't Know Tough'', which received multiple awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward (born April 1, 1977) is an American novelist and a professor of English at Tulane University, where she holds the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities. She won the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction for her second novel '' Salvage the Bones'', a story about familial love and community in facing Hurricane Katrina. She won the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction for her novel '' Sing, Unburied, Sing''. She is the only woman and only African American to win the National Book Award for Fiction twice. All of Ward's first three novels are set in the fictitious Mississippi town of Bois Sauvage. In her fourth novel, ''Let Us Descend'', the main character Annis perhaps inhabits an earlier Bois Sauvage when she is taken shackled from the Carolina coast and put to work on a Mississippi sugar plantation near New Orleans. Early life and education Jesmyn Ward was born in 1977 in Berkeley, California. When she was three, her parents returned to DeLisle, Mississippi, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Joy (author)
David Joy (born December 11, 1983) is an American novelist and short-story writer. Career David Joy is the author of the Edgar Award–nominated novel ''Where All Light Tends to Go'' ( G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2015), as well as the novels ''The Weight of This World'' (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2017), ''The Line That Held Us'' (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2018), and '' When These Mountains Burn'' (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2020). He is also the author of the memoir ''Growing Gills: A Fly Fisherman's Journey'' (Bright Mountain Books, 2011), which was a finalist for the Reed Environmental Writing Award and the Ragan Old North State Award. Joy is the recipient of an artist fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council. His writing has appeared in numerous magazines and journals, such as '' Garden & Gun'', ''Time'', and ''The New York Times Magazine''. His novel ''Where All Light Tends to Go'' will be made into a film directed by Ben Young and starring Billy Bob Thornton and Robin Wright. Personal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attica Locke
Attica Locke (born 1974 in Houston, Texas) is an American fiction author and writer/producer for television and film. Career Locke graduated from Northwestern University School of Communication in 1995, and was a fellow at the Sundance Institute's Feature Filmmakers Lab in 1999, where she studied screenwriting and directing. She has written scripts for Paramount, Warner Bros., Disney, 20th Century Fox, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, HBO, and DreamWorks. She was a writer and producer on the Fox drama ''Empire''."About" Attica Locke website. Most recently, she was a writer and producer on Netflix's '''' and the Hulu adaptation of '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
