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Boyce Upholt

@boyceupholt.bsky.social

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🖊 EIC/Found of Southlands 📖: THE GREAT RIVER: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi (W.W. Norton) 🏆: Willie Morris Award for Southern Writing

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Boyce Upholt @boyceupholt.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Having a 3-week-old kept me from Chicago, and my award category (feature reporting) came on the livestream, I was amid a diaper change. So my second James Beard Award was christened with a sprinkling of baby pee. Proud to be a 2x JBF media award winner!

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Boyce Upholt @boyceupholt.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Get your eyes on the Mississippi, y'all. We haven't seen anything like this since I started writing the book in 2020. Or more than that: my friend John Ruskey is telling me in his 30 years on the river he's never seen it come up so fast.

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Boyce Upholt @boyceupholt.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Thanks, NASA, we're doing great down here... earthobservatory.nasa.gov/topic/natura...

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Boyce Upholt @boyceupholt.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I've never been but I love to see this and will have to go soon. Maybe after I next pick up some shrimp at the Westwego Lot. www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...

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Boyce Upholt @boyceupholt.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

With Outside magazine all but over, I wanted to compile a list of longform stories set in the South. Sadly, again and again, I’m finding this screen. What a loss.

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Boyce Upholt @boyceupholt.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Good book mail

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Boyce Upholt @boyceupholt.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Louisiana campground rules

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Boyce Upholt @boyceupholt.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I do think watershed matters here; the size of the Mississippi, both its watershed and its floodplain, drew a particularly rapacious vision of capitalism. The resulting engineering, physical and social, has left what I sometimes call a scar of poverty on the map of the country.

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Boyce Upholt @boyceupholt.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I’m honored but curious - why am I suddenly accumulating followers by the dozens

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Boyce Upholt @boyceupholt.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

🙏🙏🙏 www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

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Boyce Upholt @boyceupholt.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

Delighted to see my essay on the ethics of meat-eating, told through the lens of the chicken, picked up in Longreads’ weekly top 5 stories! www.noemamag.com/the-unending...

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Boyce Upholt @boyceupholt.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

ARC time. Holler at me.

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Boyce Upholt @boyceupholt.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

Conceiving of a "Gulf of Mexico watershed" "inclusively captures Louisiana’s interactions with Gulf and Caribbean communities, as well as those in our hinterland, in centuries past and today." 64parishes.org/of-basins-an...

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Boyce Upholt @boyceupholt.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

This appears to be the cover. Get to your neighborhood bookstore 6/11/24...

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Boyce Upholt @boyceupholt.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

very badass title for this paper in a legal journal

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Boyce Upholt @boyceupholt.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

"Down went the bear stark dead, slain in the canebrake in true hunter fashion,” Teddy Roosevelt wrote in Scribner’s in 1907. Today on Southlands: the past and future of the black bear in the South--a rare predator that is abundant and imperiled at once southlands.substack.com/p/field-guid...

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