Nobody’s Home: Modern Southern Folklore is an online anthology of nonfiction works about beliefs, myths, and narratives in Southern culture over the last fifty years, in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. “Groundwork” is the blog of editor Foster Dickson, which features project updates, brief ruminations, commentaries on readings, peripheral bits of interest— and with COVID now slowing down, excerpts from interviews and periodic travelogues.
June 1, 2023: Two weeks left in the Open Submissions Period!
May 18, 2023: In the News, Spring 2023
May 2, 2023: Watching My Louisiana Love on America ReFramed on PBS
April 15, 2023: The Open Submissions Period begins today!
April 11, 2023: A Road Trip, Southwest: The Carolinas in Spring, Part Two
April 6, 2023: A Road Trip, Northeast: The Carolinas in Spring, Part One
March 23, 2023: Reading Biracial Politics by Chandler Davidson (1972)
March 15, 2023: The Open Submissions Period begins one month from today!
February 23, 2023: Watching Conrack on TCM
February 7, 2023: In the News, Winter 2023
January 26, 2023: Coach Bear Bryant, 40 Years Later
January 15, 2023: The Open Submissions Period for 2023
December 29, 2022: A Road Trip, Eastbound: Highway 80
December 13, 2022: Reading Joseph Bagley’s The Politics of White Rights (2018)
November 29, 2022: Watching State of Alabama v Brittany Smith on Netflix
November 8, 2022: In the News, Fall 2022
October 20, 2022: Reading Cathedrals of the Kudzu by Hal Crowther
October 8, 2022: Watching The Downing of a Flag on PBS
September 1, 2022: Taking a Quick Break
August 23, 2022: Watching Sapelo from America ReFramed on PBS
August 9, 2022: In the News, Summer 2002
July 26, 2022: Forthcoming in Nobody’s Home— New Works!
July 6, 2022: Two-Year Anniversary
June 15, 2022: The Open Submission Period is closed.
June 9, 2022: Reading One South by John Shelton Reed
May 17, 2022: In the News, Spring 2022
April 14, 2022: The Open Submissions Period for 2022
April 5, 2022: A Road Trip, Northeast: Clayton, Georgia
March 31, 2022: Watching Hillbilly (2019)
March 22, 2022: Reading The Omni-Americans by Albert Murray
March 8, 2022: Some Conversation Starters for International Women’s Day
March 3, 2022: The Editor’s Reading List: Thirteen Done, Thirteen to Go
February 24, 2022: Watching “Migratruse” from Monograph on PBS
February 10, 2022: In the News, Winter 2022
January 27, 2022: Reading Media-Made Dixie by Jack Temple Kirby
January 15, 2022: Interviewers, Reviewers, and Writers: Submissions, Continued
January 2, 2022: For Teachers: Lesson plans are available!
December 28, 2021: Watching “The Neutral Ground” from POV on PBS
December 16, 2021: A Road Trip, Southbound: Highway 31
December 9, 2021: Reading Katie Lamar Jackson’s A Movement of the People
November 30, 2021: A Road Trip, Northwest: Highway 82
November 16, 2021: In the News, Fall 2021
November 2, 2021: Reading Heritage and Hate by Stephen M. Monroe
September 30, 2021: The Outro: There was never one South.
September 16, 2021: Forthcoming in Nobody’s Home— Twelve New Works
September 4, 2021: Reading Ben Beard’s The South Never Plays Itself
August 31, 2021: Watching “Fertile Ground” on PBS
August 24, 2021: A Road Trip, Southbound: Highway 331
August 16, 2021: The submission guidelines have changed.
August 14, 2021: Last Call for Submissions
August 5, 2021: People are gon’ do what they’re gon’ do.
July 22, 2021: Reading Noel Polk’s Outside the Southern Myth
July 15, 2021: The call for submissions is nearing an end.
July 6, 2021: Watching Meltdown in Dixie from America ReFramed on PBS
June 29, 2021: Reading Matthew Lassiter’s The Silent Majority
June 22, 2021: Myths and Facts: LGBTQ in the South
June 12, 2021: Forthcoming in Nobody’s Home— Twelve New Works
June 3, 2021: Watching Far East Deep South from America ReFramed on PBS
May 25, 2021: Reading South to a New Place, edited by Suzanne W. Jones and Sharon Monteith
May 15, 2021: The Fourth (and Final) Reading Period
May 4, 2021: Vox Press’s new Mississippi Prison Writings anthology
April 10, 2021: More Substance than Stereotype: Southerners and Guns
March 25, 2021: Reading Myth and Southern History, Volume 2: The New South
February 23, 2021: Reading Alexander Lamis’ The Two-Party South
February 3, 2021: Five More Historians and Journalists on the Modern South
January 23, 2021: Reading Stephen A Smith’s Myth, Media, and the Southern Mind
January 19, 2021: The call for submissions continues.
January 12, 2021: Forthcoming in Nobody’s Home— Thirteen New Works
December 19, 2020: Reading Jack Temple Kirby’s The Countercultural South
December 8, 2020: The Looming Specter of the Dormant Voter
November 24, 2020: Reading Charles Reagan Wilson’s Judgment & Grace in Dixie
November 12, 2020: Work
November 3, 2020: Reagan at Neshoba, August 1980
October 22, 2020: “I mean, what am I supposed to write about?”
October 13, 2020: Crazy, Wrong Madness
September 29, 2020: A Personal Religion that Goes Public
September 27, 2020: Five Historians and Journalists on the Modern South
September 17, 2020: Narratives, Old and New
August 3, 2020: A Word from the Editor on Submissions
July 6, 2020: On Facebook and Twitter, and just now accepting submissions