Many of my essays, profiles, and narrative nonfiction are reprinted in “Alabama Afternoons: Profiles and Conversations” and “Back Home: Journeys Through Mobile.” See “Books” and “Book Club Discussions” for detailed information.
The works below are some that can be individually accessed through links.
New York Times Essays:
“Dancing Across the Generations”
“A Reunion With My Younger Hitchhiking Self”
“An Empty House Where Time Stands Still”
“Tom’s World”
“A Harbor Voyage Encompassing the Years”
“Greetings from Brooklyn, Alabama”
“My Own Private New York”
“Long Lives the Mockingbird”
“A Contract for Watermelons”
New York Times Op/Ed:
“Leaving Alabama Behind,”
“Spanning the Gulf”
“Two Tons of Morality”
“Hurricane People”
“Picturing You at Prometheus”
New York Times Book Review:
“Life After Life,”
“If Sons then Heirs,”
“Bitter in the Mouth”
“Between Heaven and Here”
“South of Broad”
“The Millionaires”
“Sweetsmoke”
“Coal Black Horse”
“Andy Catlett”
“On Agate Hill”
“The Jewish Confederates”
Recalling a Dad, a Sister
“Windows: A Son Remembers”
“An Independent Woman”
Nonfiction storytelling:
“Deliver Us From Evil,” 3-part series
“Beyond the Convent Walls”
“A Day With Honor Flight WWII Veterans”
“The Pact”
Profiles
Garden & Gun, “The Bard of Point Clear: Winston Groom”
Robert Andry: Veteran of a WWII all-black tank battalion
The Creative Process
“My Unexpected South”
“The True Value of Signed Books”
“Why I Write”
Anthologized Writings:
“Preservation” magazine essay, “On the Dock of the Bay,” in
“A Certain Somewhere: Writers on the Places They Remember”
“New York Times” essay, “Tom’s World,” in
“More New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of the New York Times”
“Newsweek on Campus” essay, “On Keeping a Journal,” in
“The Prentice-Hall Guide for College Writers”
“Mobile Press-Register” profile, “Albert Murray’s House of Blues,” in
“Albert Murray and the Aesthetic Imagination of a Nation”
Original young adult short story, “Ice Cream Man,” in
“Working Days: Short Stories About Teenagers at Work”