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When Ghosts Come Home by Wiley Cash

Wiley Cash’s newest novel tells the story of the humming underbelly of small-town racial tension, and the rippling effects it has on ignored crime, dirty politics, and decades of silence that can occur when we remain grappling with what remains unsaid in rural southern communities. While the novel takes place decades ago, the core themes of When Ghosts Come Home are a reminder that serves as a clarion call for us all to realize that things can remain festering well into the twenty-first century ...

Larry Wessel’s Palace of Wonders

Larry Wessel is the modern curator of the strange underground of American Folk Kitsch. It is an important role he plays in recording what is being forgotten day in and day out as we are bombarded with more and more electronic artifice that we are mistaking for culture. In the world of the meme, Wessel’s work is a beacon to the three-dimensional world of the bizarro, gonzo true creativity.   

His newest film, Palace of Wonders, is best represented as a metaphor of one of its segments that come...