The Big Break
The teachers began to notice him at the beginning of the 2010 school year, the stranger in a red pickup truck and lizard-skin boots. He was in the hallways and in the classrooms of the school. He was...
View ArticleOne and Done
By any measure, John Smoltz’s twenty-two-year professional career was remarkable. A Cy Young winner and eight-time All-Star, Smoltz is the most recent pitcher to join the 3,000 strikeout club and the...
View ArticleEddie's Attic Turns Twenty
UPDATE: On May 14, Eddie Owen announced that he had been fired from Eddie's Attic. Read Rich Eldredge's blog post about Owen's departure, Owen's response, and Alex Cooley's take on the situation. Shut...
View ArticleCrime Pays
Like most Anglo-Saxon surnames, Slaughter probably derives from an ancestor’s occupation: a butcher or someone else who got his hands bloody for a living. So Karin Slaughter’s success as a crime writer...
View ArticleSweet Dreams
First the governor arrived, aides in tow. Later came the mayor, riding in a black SUV with tinted windows. There were state officials, city council members, and local TV stations, illuminated in a...
View ArticleThere's Gold in Them Thar Hills!
Digger Don disappears beneath the surface of the water, where it courses seven feet deep, to guide the three-inch nozzle of his dredge over the crenulations of quartz and granite, burrowing through...
View ArticleAnchor Woman
Monica Kaufman had just turned off the I-85 South exit for Newnan when the blue lights flashed in her rearview mirror. It was the fall of 1975, and the twenty-seven-year-old University of Louisville...
View ArticleWhere It All Went Wrong
Like ghosts rising out of a Confederate cemetery, Atlanta’s past lapses in judgment haunt the region today, leaving a smoky trail of suburban decay, declining home values, clogged highways, and a...
View ArticleThe Best Team You've Never Seen
The owners of the Atlanta Dream, the city’s five-year-old WNBA franchise, are wondering where everyone is. It’s seven o’clock on a Friday night in late May, thirty minutes before tip-off at the 2012...
View ArticleIn the Shadows
The stranger arrived at the movie set late in the evening. Crew members preparing for a long night’s shoot were told the short and stocky, heavily bearded man had come to watch over one of the film’s...
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