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Michael A. Hill '01 wore a leopard-print shirt and hemp dog collar...
More concerned with plot than pathos, Brown presents his characters without judgment or sentiment, a courtesy he extended to all the luckless, hard-drinking, rootless denizens of his previous work. On the strength of his bleak, intimately detailed portraits of blue-collar Mississippians, and his insistence on setting his stories in and around his hometown (a region fictionalized by William Faulkner as Yoknapatawpha County), Brown is being celebrated as a new voice of the South, or, as he's also been dubbed, one of the "bad boys" of Southern literature...
Petner, who has been the Haggerty's principal for 11 years, says Strawberry Hill--a "typically blue-collar neighborhood"--has seen an influx of more affluent residents in recent years, but emphasizes its traditional character still endures...
...Bildungsroman. I suppose it is possible to retain this tradition by writing the autobiography of a life parked before a computer screen. But how much flavor would be missing without the scene of the hero walking across campus alone on a winter night, his head uncovered, his jacket collar drawn tight about his neck, alone, hearing a violin play You'll Never Walk Alone in a practice room somewhere, alone, in the snow that turns to rain...
...Ratio of the average salary of an American CEO to that of an American blue-collar worker...