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On May 8, 2006, Congolese finance graduate Guy Goma turns up for a job interview at the BBC when his world suddenly explodes. Mistaken for a technology expert whose name was also Guy (and who was waiting in a different reception area), he’s ushered into a TV studio and interviewed live on air.

Always Something To Do is a novel built from primary sources — the handwritten memoir of Naomi Roberts Ledbetter, an interview recorded in her own words at the age of eighty, and historic documents spanning her lifetime. Travel along with her and her story. A girl from a rural farm in Alabama...

Fishing in the Farther Streams continues the story of the author's becoming a husband, father, and teacher begun in Eden across the Street and Other Formative Places (Palmetto 2020). The most important places in this second memoir are Jefferson, Maine; 508 Beau Street; Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania; and Cambridge, England. The author invites you to watch him stride, stumble, and maybe catch his balance.

Deep in the American South, poverty was rarely temporary. For many families, it was inherited. In the cotton mill towns of the American South, generations of families lived in a world defined by lint dust, mill whistles, and long days of exhausting labor. Poverty was not simply a hardship. It was a system that shaped communities, reputations, and the expectations placed on entire bloodlines. Families like these were often labeled with a single dismissive word: lintheads.