I started Interminable Rambling in August 2015. On this site, I provide reflections on African American, American, and Southern Literature, American popular culture and politics, and pedagogy. Interminable Rambling arose out of the blog I maintained for the Ernest J Gaines Center. There, I wrote about items in the center’s archives, Gaines’ works, and texts that related to Gaines and Louisiana. When I moved on from the center, I started Interminable Rambling as a way to maintain a writing schedule.
Whenever I go to a used bookstore, I always check to see if they have any books by Frank Yerby, mainly because I research his work and I also collect any book I can find by him. Inevitably, no matter where I find one of Yerby’s novels, it is always one of his “costume novels,”…
One of the things that frustrates me about living in Paris for a set amount of time is that I can’t buy all of the books that I want to buy. For example, I’ve been to most of the English language bookshops multiple times, just looking around, and buying very little. I did pick up…
Recently, I took a trip to Lyon, at the confluence of the Rhône and Saône rivers, for a few days away from Paris. While there, I went to the Basilique of Notre Dame of Fourvière, where I saw two bas-reliefs of Cain murdering Abel and Cain’s expulsion. I found these interesting, of course, because I…
A couple of years ago, I picked up Leonora Carrington’s Down Below, a memoir she details a psychotic break that she had, in 1940, as the invading Germany army took her partner, Max Ernst, to a concentration camp and she tried to flee across the Pyrenees into Spain. The memoir introduced me to Carrington, whom…
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