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Bayou Culture Bewitches in Stephanie Soileau’s Louisiana Literary Triumph – Garden & Gun
For their small number and swampy isolation, the Cajun people of Southwest Louisiana have exerted an extraordinary impact on American culture. Their cuisine, for example, has infiltrated home and restaurant kitchens from Spokane to Sheboygan, with supermarkets nationwide stocking Cajun seasoning alongside salt and pepper. Zydeco and Cajun music flowed into and shaped broader American forms such as blues-rock and country.
Constance Higgins - No More Bleating
No More Bleating By riverrun 172pp £14.99 Subscribe or Sign In to read the full article For People Who Devour Books Only a selection of our reviews and articles are free. Subscribers receive the monthly magazine and access to all articles on our website. Visit our Bookshop Browse our selection of reviewed and recommended books
Powering the next wave
James Gee, Head of Digital and IT Framework Agreements at NHS Shared Business Services, provides insights on public sector transformation, including the Digital Workplace Solutions 2 framework agreement Ageing networks, siloed systems and outdated processes block ambitions across the NHS and wider public sector to harness artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), automation and emerging technologies.
Eradication: A Fable
From the rant of a disgruntled airline passenger, to a sendup of American consumerism, to a tale of an Afghanistan War veteran whose sudden recovery from paralysis sparks a worldwide frenzy, Jonathan Miles’ first three novels have been noteworthy for their wildly varying subject matter and often comic sensibility. It’s not surprising, then, that none of them provide a hint that his fourth would be the taut and morally freighted ecological thriller ERADICATION: A Fable.
The Seeds of a Novel: A Guest Post by Jonathan Miles Beaten down by life, Ari jumps at the chance to do something meaningful. From the author of Dear American Airlines comes a richly imaginative fable about saving the world. Read on for an exclusive essay from author Jonathan Miles on writing Eradication. Hardcover $22.00 $25.00 By Jonathan Miles In Stock Online Hardcover $22.00 $25.00 Please enable javascript to add items to the cart.
The February 2026 Indie Next List Preview
Jan 07 2026 The February 2026 Indie Next List Preview Printer-friendly version Here are the 25 Indie Next List and 6 Now in Paperback picks on the February 2026 Indie Next List flier. The February title list is also viewable as a collection on Edelweiss and on the Indie Next List page as an Excel file alongside PDFs for the month’s flier and shelf-talker templates. Learn more and visit Matchbook Marketing’s program page to sign up to send the free Indie Next List e-newsletter to customers.
Why leadership and competitiveness must advance together
Ilias Grampas of the European Bureau for Conservation and Development and the Secretariat of the MEP Group on 'Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development', examines Europe's climate pathway, emphasising the need for leadership and competitiveness to progress together Building on the ambition and consistency of the European Green Deal, the Climate Law, the "Fit for 55" package, and the Clean Industrial Deal, the European Union (EU) shows that climate ambition and economic...
ERADICATION | Kirkus Reviews
A debut novel with bright spots, but unbalanced and lacking in finesse. A high school senior pursues an affair with her teacher. Seventeen-year-old Waldo, the narrator of McCurdy’s fiction debut, lives in Anchorage, Alaska, with her mother, though she’s long been the parent in their relationship. She heats her own frozen meals and pays the bills on time while her mom chases man after man and makes well-meaning promises she never keeps.
The Best Wild Game Recipe for Ground Goose Meat
PLUCKING A LIMIT of a Canada or snow geese is—let’s face it—an onerous chore. And the meat from some old geese is just never going to be tender, no matter which culinary spells you cast. That’s when your grinder saves the day. Ground goose makes for a dense, flavor-packed meatball, patty, or sausage stuffing. Just be sure to add at least 10 percent fat to the mixture—pork fatback works beautifully—but ideally closer to 20.
How to Make Vietnamese Street-Food-Style Fried Quail
STREET-FOOD STAPLES in Vietnam, these butterflied quail are marinated in a slurry of oyster sauce, fish sauce, spices, garlic, and honey before being pan-fried and then—just to gild the lily—drenched with lime and black-pepper-spiked butter. Little birds, massive flavors. You can opt to grill the birds instead (also, partridges or chukars work just as well here). Serve with steamed rice and a quick salad of tomato, mint, cilantro, and basil.
Building a better UK housing policy
John Howard, the Managing Director of John Howard Property, discusses how to build a better housing policy for the UK The UK's housing crisis is a towering challenge that successive governments have failed to tackle thoroughly - leaving the consequences of underperforming policy to pile up. Indeed, whilst the new National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), announced last December, aims to address rising demand, it lacks the radical action needed to lay solid foundations for growth.
The role of AI in sustainable agriculture
Aarthi Janakiraman, Research Director of the Advanced SciTech Division at Everest Group, thoroughly examines the role of AI in sustainable agriculture When examining the role of AI in sustainable agriculture, we first need to consider that soil health is an integral part of sustainable agriculture, and its role in ensuring food security is undeniable. Indeed, a healthy soil ecosystem fosters biodiversity, ensures robust crop growth and yield, and maintains soil-water nexus.
Two Ways to Worship a Golden Calf
When we think of Hebrew idolatry, we tend to think of worshipping another god. However, another form of idolatry is making a version of the Lord and then substituting that image for the true Lord. We do this when we form an image of the Lord in our minds, a god who winks at our sin, or isn’t jealous, or fits into our box. We do this with bad theology, making God into something he’s not. I’ve been thinking about idolatry lately.
A Bird-Dog Bell with a Familiar Ring
THE SCENT OF SKUNK didn’t come off the bell for days, but that happens when your dog takes two close-range blasts in the face. Sam was wearing the bell on the morning my wife, Pam, first came hunting with me. When it fell silent, we found Sam on point at the end of a waterway in a spot that often held a rooster. “Watch this,” I said, stepping forward to kick the grass in front of Sam’s nose. Instead of an explosion of wingbeats, a black-and-white tail curled up out of the grass.
Fish Recipe: The Best Fried Walleye Sandwich
Behold—the Lake Erie Monster Recipe: How to Make the Lake Erie Monster Melt Bar & Grilled, in the Cleveland suburbs of Lakewood and Cleveland Heights, has one specialty: grilled-cheese sandwiches. The menu presence of 26 variations on that humble childhood favorite—there’s even one stuffed with lasagna—is just one indicator of how far and wide owner Matt Fish is willing to take a grilled-cheese.
No Place Like Texas
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY has a theory. Actually, Matthew McConaughey has lots of theories, about everything from how your drinking water quality affects your hairline to the way knowing the truth, seeing the truth, and telling the truth are all very different experiences. But one theory that’s special to him goes like this: The closer we get to the site of our conception, the more wholly ourselves we are. Not birthplace, mind you—conception.
Jonathan Miles
Title: Author Location: Milford, New Jersey Expertise: Music, books, writing, journalism Jonathan Miles is an American journalist and novelist. Jonathan Miles is the author of the novels Dear American Airlines, Want Not, and Anatomy of a Miracle. About Southern Living Southern Living, a Dotdash Meredith Brand, celebrates the food, homes, places, and culture of the South. We reach 7.2 million readers a month. Our content is written by experienced journalists and fact checked for accuracy.
Europe’s Leadership Famine: Portraits of Defiance and Decay, 1950–2022
In This Review In This Review Europe’s Leadership Famine: Portraits of Defiance and Decay, 1950-2022 This iconoclastic book asks why European citizens so dislike their elected representatives. Politicians, the author contends, used to be chosen for their ability to expound nationalist ideals that stirred the masses. Today, the challenges of wrestling with globalization, European integration, climate change, and migration favor mediocre and mendacious managers who inspire no one.
The Once Upon a Time World: The Dark and Sparkling Story of the French Riviera
In This Review In This Review The Once Upon a Time World: The Dark and Sparkling Story of the French Riviera Today, the French Riviera is well known, easily reached, and overcrowded. Yet it was not always so. Before the mid-nineteenth century, few viewed warm seaside locales as attractive resort destinations. Moreover, the Riviera remained nearly inaccessible by land. Only those seeking to treat severe tuberculosis viewed it as a worthwhile destination.
Book Review: "How Not to Be a Politician" by Rory Stewart
In This Review In This Review How Not to Be a Politician: A Memoir If you read only one contemporary political memoir, let this be it. Stewart is a certain type of eccentric figure once commonplace in British Conservative circles.
F&S Classics: The Old Ones
IT’S TOO CLOSE to the bone. This is not the way it’s supposed to go. Always before, our hunters have left quietly, in perfect chronology, as orderly as children filing out to playground recess, one at a time, each successive oldest passing through that door—as if leaving the camp house to go look around for something; one more hunt and then not coming back. Stepping through that door, and into the landscape of our memory.
The Best Way to Cook Fish With Mayo
YOU MIGHT HAVE heard about—or even tried—last year’s trendy Thanksgiving trick of slathering your turkey in mayonnaise before its turn in the oven. Eyebrows were raised, but hardly anyone could dispute the results: richly bronzed skin, uncommonly juicy meat, applause for the cook. Chefs have been using this tactic for years, and not just on holiday birds. The science behind it is simple.
Freedom Of Contract And Its Limits: Selected Issues For The Construction Industry
United States: Freedom Of Contract And Its Limits: Selected Issues For The Construction Industry 09 July 2021 by Jonathan S. Miles (Houston) Peckar & Abramson PC To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com.
A Biography for the 2,190 Miles of the Appalachian Trail
Nonfiction The Neels Gap to Woody Gap section of the Appalachian Trail on Blood Mountain outside Blairsville, Ga.Credit...Erik S. Lesser for The New York Times Published June 25, 2021Updated June 28, 2021 THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL A Biography By Philip D’Anieri In “On Trails: An Exploration,” Robert Moor’s sinuous meditation on the theory and practice of nature trails, Moor wrote that he used to wonder about the authorship of the unmarked footpaths he’d encounter in the woods or in city parks.
The Benediction Recipe
Yana Paskova for The New York Times
Endpapers | Grove Atlantic
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Florida Football: Will rust be an issue vs. Missouri in Week 9?
(Photo by Brad McClenny/USA TODAY Network) Missouri and Florida football will meet on Saturday night for a potential shootout, but will the Gators be rusty after an extended break? Saturday night in The Swamp in primetime, the Florida Gators will return after two weeks without a game due to the COVID-19 outbreak after their previous game — their only loss to Texas A&M.
Florida Football: Dan Mullen gives update on his team’s COVID-19 return
(Photo by Brad McClenny/USA TODAY Network) After stating he wanted a full stadium for Florida football’s matchup with LSU last weekend, Dan Mullen’s team suffered a COVID-19 outbreak. Florida’s football program will remain closed until Monday as the team attempts to continue to control an outbreak of COVID-19. Coach Dan Mullen, who tested positive last week, told reporters on Wednesday that he’s feeling well and remains in isolation at home.
Cavorting in Hot Springs, Ark., During Its Sin-Soaked Heyday
nonfiction A singer in Hot Springs, Ark., in 1960, at a time when the town was known for its “steamy, sumptuous, flashy, vaguely illicit and supremely indulgent” nightclubs.Credit...Francis Miller/The LIFE Picture Collection, via Getty Images July 7, 2020 THE VAPORS A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America’s Forgotten Capital of Vice By David Hill “The only rule in Hot Springs,” Virginia Clinton Kelley once wrote, “was to enjoy yourself.” Kelley...
December 2019 | WONDERLUST
WILLIAM FAULKNER: The Cofield Collection By Jack Cofield Yoknapatawpha Press, $32.95 In the twentieth century, literature defined the world, in a way emojis and Instagram stories never will. The great writers described the human condition indelibly. And the greatest of all of them — and there were many literary titans in the 1900s, unequalled since — was, in my opinion, William Faulkner.
Larry Brown’s Long and Tortured Struggle to Make Himself Into a Writer
Larry hated me telling this story. But Larry also understood that the most natural place to begin is at the beginning, and this was ours. Late in 1992 I was sitting at the upstairs bar at the City Grocery in Oxford, Mississippi, when a man approached me. He was older than me by a couple decades: neither tall nor short, sparely built, with doleful-looking eyes and a narrow face etched in worry lines.
Jonathan J. Miles column: Virginia’s renewable energy future poised to lead the nation
In the wake of Gov. Ralph Northam setting the commonwealth on a path toward procuring all its power from carbon-free sources by 2050, Virginia is positioned to deploy the most balanced and resilient clean energy portfolio in the nation. Just two weeks ago, five organizations representing overlapping constituencies and stakeholder groups convened the inaugural Virginia Clean Energy Summit in Richmond, hosting more than 400 registered attendees.
Tiny Love
“Drawn in gritty, deceptively simple prose, his characters drink too much, smoke too much, and flout the law when they can. But Brown proves that the coarsest material can produce the most affecting art.” —Men’s Journal “The complete collection of Brown’s darkly comic short stories starring smart and salty workaday Southerners . . .
A Road Trip Novel Distills America Through Gary Shteyngart’s Hipstamatic Mind
Can the immigrant writer, having taken as his or her subject the expatriate experience and all its attendant dislocations, ever really relinquish that subject? Bharati Mukherjee, Henry Roth and Amy Tan might say no; Vladimir Nabokov and V. S. Naipaul, yes. Gary Shteyngart is still thinking about it.
Sheldon Turner Adapting Anatomy of a Miracle for Paramount
Deadline is reporting that writer and producer Sheldon Turner (The Longest Yard, X-Men: First Class, Up in the Air) will be adapting Anatomy of a Miracle for Paramount Pictures, who has acquired the rights to the novel.
You've Probably Never Heard of This Incredibly Charming Florida Island
"Whatever you do, please," my fishing guide is telling me as we cast for speckled trout in the vivid Florida sunshine, "just don't go calling Cedar Key "the place that time forgot."" It's writerly advice, for this story, and I'll abide by it. But the fact that he feels compelled to issue it says a lot about Cedar Key—a smidge of a town (population 700) on that woolly stretch of Gulf Coast between Tampa and Apalachicola known as the Big Bend.
You've Probably Never Heard of This Incredibly Charming Florida Island
"Whatever you do, please," my fishing guide is telling me as we cast for speckled trout in the vivid Florida sunshine, "just don't go calling Cedar Key "the place that time forgot."" It's writerly advice, for this story, and I'll abide by it. But the fact that he feels compelled to issue it says a lot about Cedar Key—a smidge of a town (population 700) on that woolly stretch of Gulf Coast between Tampa and Apalachicola known as the Big Bend.
Nightstand: Books We're Reading This Week
STICKY FINGERS: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JANN WENNER AND ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE By Joe Hagan Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine is a 574-page road map of an America that has all but disappeared. From heady San Fran to the corporate wasteland of midtown Manhattan, this is author Joe Hagan’s warts and all portrait of a former high school nerd who would go on to publish the paper of record for the late ‘60s revolution.
New Season, New Books: 22 Staff-Picked Reads
“It’s All About the Book” More thoughts on reading from Kathy Schultenover, Parnassus Book Clubs Manager: Every month at Parnassus Books, we receive dozens of ARCs (advanced readers’ copies) of upcoming releases. As a staff, we are encouraged to read as many as we want, to be able to give feedback to publishers and be able to recommend them to customers when they are released.
Jonathan Miles - Anatomy of a Miracle - Book Review
Four years after a veteran of the war in Afghanistan was paralyzed by an IED explosion, he suddenly rises from his wheelchair in the parking lot of a Biloxi, Mississippi, convenience store—and that’s when Jonathan Miles’ smart exploration of everything from the excesses of American popular culture to the deepest aspects of religious belief roars to life.
Luis Alberto Urrea - The House of Broken Angels - Book Review
Given the fractures that mark the history of the United States and the many immigrants who call this nation home, it’s not particularly surprising that so much of American storytelling gravitates toward the familial, seeks shelter in that blood-bound country within the country. What has been said best about American life in the realm of fiction has often been said through the prism of the American family.
Marilynne Robinson - What Are We Doing Here? - Book Review
Though she’s best known for novels like her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead, in recent years Marilynne Robinson has quietly been building an impressive body of nonfiction work. In What Are We Doing Here?, her third collection of essays since 2012, she again discourses with depth and sensitivity on an impressive range of topics in theology, philosophy and contemporary American life.
Joel Richard Paul - Without Precedent - Book Review
When John Marshall was appointed as the fourth chief justice of the United States by President John Adams, the Supreme Court had few cases, no genuine authority and met in the basement of the U.S. Capitol. But from 1801 to 1835, the court transformed under Marshall’s leadership, issuing more than 1,000 mostly unanimous decisions, with half of them written by Marshall himself.
Bridging the Racial Divide in a Middle School Friendship
“Green,” the debut novel from Sam Graham-Felsen, who was chief blogger for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, chronicles the middle school travails of an anomalous variety of minority student. “I am the white boy at the Martin Luther King Middle,” is how 12-year-old David Alexander Greenfeld, nicknamed Green, introduces himself in the novel’s opening line.
A continued focus on improving Swedish energy policy
The goal of Swedish energy policy is: “to ensure, with as little environmental impact as possible, a secure electricity supply for companies and households at competitive prices.” (1) We were fortunate to interview the country’s current Minister for Policy Coordination and Energy, Ibrahim Baylan about his ambitions to make Sweden ahead of the game when it comes to implementing energy efficiency measures.
Why public sector organisations must ‘Break the Boundaries’ in 2018
TechMarketView’s recently published analysis of the UK public sector ICT market revealed a picture that can be viewed in the context of ‘micro’ trends and ‘macro’ trends. In our view, the ‘micro’ trends, i.e. the direction that the UK government is taking in terms of its ICT strategy, are largely unchanged.
Fewer delays for UK rail passengers following Christmas upgrades
Key rail upgrades in the UK Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex passengers were completed over Christmas and New Year as part of a package of work that will transform journeys into the capital city. Network Rail engineers worked the equivalent of 16,000 hours to install over 10km of overhead wire at Ilford, as part of a £250 million project to install a new wiring system that automatically adapts to temperature changes to reduce delays.
Jonathan Miles: St Petersburg review - culture and calamity
Talk about survival: St Petersburg, Petrograd, Leningrad, now again St Petersburg, all the same city, has it nailed down. It was founded through the mad enthusiasm, intelligence, determination and just off-the-scale energy of Peter the Great in 1703, built on the bodies of around 30,000 labourers (not the 300,000 that later rumours have suggested) at the whim of an Emperor.
Recipes from NYT Cooking
Shane Brown for The New York Times 19 ways to get creative with the classic American whiskey.
<em>Want Not</em> by Jonathan Miles | The Rumpus.net
A young couple squats in a Lower Manhattan apartment, living off the trash of the land. A linguist mired in a midlife crisis signs a government contract to help dispose of nuclear waste. A debt collections magnate who seems to have everything decides he wants more. Want Not, Jonathan Miles’ follow-up to his acclaimed debut novel, Dear American Airlines, is a multi-tiered narrative built upon this unlikely cast of characters.
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