We’ve covered Eudora Welty’s influence on a Grammy-winning album here . But she may also have inspired the titles of a couple of fam...

If you read for plot, you might not get much out of Delta Wedding . The story follows the Fairchild family as they gather and make ...

Paul Simon scored a worldwide hit with his 1986 album Graceland , winning the Grammy for Album of the Year in 1987. The title track fr...

In 1917, H.L.  Mencken published an essay about what he saw as the abject, cultural wasteland of the American South, titled “The Sahar...

I shared in another post how I was introduced to John Cheever through a pop-culture reference in an episode of Seinfeld. But I’m sure C...