Essie Mae and Strom
Essie Mae Washington-Williams died over the weekend. She was the secret daughter of Strom Thurmond, the child of Thurmond and a black maid who worked in the family home. Thurmond […]
Essie Mae Washington-Williams died over the weekend. She was the secret daughter of Strom Thurmond, the child of Thurmond and a black maid who worked in the family home. Thurmond […]
From Hugo Lindgren in the NYT: Ideas, in a sense, are overrated. Of course, you need good ones, but at this point in our supersaturated culture, precious few are so […]
Now that I write sports for a living — it still feels weird to say that — I’ve talked a lot about my favorite sports moments of the year. I’ve […]
You know you’re in good hands from the first pages of Inman Majors‘ novel “Love’s Winning Plays,” when the uncomfortable sight of a naked head coach’s toweling technique […]
Besides Saturday night’s college football, of course: 1. My friend Justin Heckert’s beautiful story in the New York Times Magazine on a girl in South Georgia who can’t feel pain. […]
I saw Larry Major a couple weeks ago. He was sober and pleasant. Not many people have seen him that way. Most of us here in Charlotte know him as […]