On the eve of Johnny Cash’s 80th birthday, there are several appropriate ways to commemorate the event. You could dress in black, program playlists on the iPod full of old country and gospel standards, or you could find where the Johnny […]
Eryk Pruitt is a screenwriter, author and filmmaker living in Durham, NC with his wife Lana and cat Busey. His short films FOODIE and LIYANA, ON COMMAND have won several awards at film festivals across the US. His fiction appears in The Avalon Literary Review, Pulp Modern, Thuglit, and Zymbol, to name a few. In 2013, he was a finalist for Best Short Fiction in Short Story America and has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes for 2014. His novel Dirtbags was published in April 2014, and HASHTAG will be published by 280 Steps in May, 2015. A full list of credits can be found at erykpruitt.com.
On the eve of Johnny Cash’s 80th birthday, there are several appropriate ways to commemorate the event. You could dress in black, program playlists on the iPod full of old country and gospel standards, or you could find where the Johnny […]
I QUIT Top Ten Work Songs 10. “Been on the Job Too Long” by Wilmer Watts and the Lonely Eagles Wilmer Watts and the Lonely Eagles were born of the Gastonia cotton mill culture in North Carolina, reaching the peak […]
Mississippi paints a picture: haunted, apocryphal, unchanged. Sure, for many, it’s business as usual, but how long has it been that way? The landscape is dotted with casino billboards all the way to Tunica, and the stark silhouettes of pecan […]
In the same spirit of the American Murder Ballad, the Disaster Ballad served to tell a story of a great, tragic event. Long before the internet, television, or even radio, storytelling and songwriting served the public’s need for news and […]