My, my. A book does get around

flash fiction

The dead are better company, is all

Drink up. Riff on. We’ll get through this somehow. Or not.

WYPL Programming Coordinator Andy Hunt hosts his first episode of Book Talk, and his guest is veteran journalist and novelist David Wesley Williams. David appeared on Book talk previously to discuss h...

Serious daring at the presidential library

I’ve visited the writing spaces of William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, and other literary heroes, but not because I think it will help my own writing. Tha…

An honorary Southerner by way of Argentina conjures the Father of Waters, the Mississippi River

Some lost kin of Flem and them

In Come Again No More, David Wesley Williams resurrects the spirit of a dying newsroom with the lyrical gusto of a man both mourning and celebrating his first …

For Robert Johnson and them

YouTube video by David Wesley Williams

A folkie’s wild ride with Sam Phillips & Sons in a pink Cadillac

The devil, the Delta, and Dixie Peach pomade

A tip of the newsboy cap to one of the fictional fallen

Or: How to pitch literary fiction in a world where the average book sells 100 copies

YouTube video by David Wesley Williams

YouTube video by David Wesley Williams

Sentences for days

Traipse and wander, maybe catch a train. Sing the blues, cry tamale-juice tears, seek the crossroads of your soul. Anybody asks, you’re looking for the Shroud of Itta Bena.

Or: Tallahatchie Unabridged