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.

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Highlighting for Students the Process of Writing Comics

Speaking about writing Black Panther for Marvel back in 2016, Ta-Nehisi Coates, when asked about the challenges of writing comics, responded by saying, “It’s a very backwards — in my mind — process of writing. I mean, it’s the process of writing screenplays, of writing comic books, but it’s nmot the process of writing journalism.”…

The Search for Nothing Amidst Everything

Esperaba que alguna vez. Nada puede durar tanto, no existe ningún recuerdo por intenso que sea que no se apague. I woke up alone in Puerto Vallarta. My mouth dry. My body sore. My senses numb. I heard the waves crashing against the rocks and receding back into the depths, and I desired nothing more…

What Music Have I Been Listening to Lately?

Recently, I’ve written about music and the fetishization of Asian women, about the Dead Kennedys’ debut album Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, and about some of my favorite music from 1995, but it’s been a few months since I’ve written about some of the music I’m currently enjoying. With that in mind, I want to take a moment and…

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