Audio: This Goodly Land Announces Its First Podcasts

This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape proudly unveils its new audio podcast series. Our "Multimedia" page has links to mp3s of interviews with scholars on topics relevant to Alabama authors.

The first two programs in the series are titled "The Harlem Renaissance" and "Travel Writing." Maiben Beard from the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities interviews Dr. Susana Morris and Dr. Christopher Keirstead from the Auburn University Department of English.

Supplemental materials for these programs are available at This Goodly Land's Web site and include audio transcripts, reading lists, discussion questions, and lesson plans.

Stream "Harlem Renaissance Audio, Part 1."

Stream "Harlem Renaissance Audio, Part 2."

Stream "Travel Writing Audio."

(To download, right-click on the link(s) above and choose "Save Link As ..." or "Save Target As ...")

Learn more about the subjects of This Goodly Land's audio podcasts from our supplemental materials.

Midge Coates, Project Manager
This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape

Video: "Where Are You From?"

Back in the fall of 2006, when we were getting This Goodly Land ready for public launch, we knew that we would have to address the issue of what constitutes an "Alabama author." We saw and liked an essay written by Todd Keith, then editor of PORTICO Magazine, on what it means to be a Birmingham writer. We asked Todd if he would adapt this to Alabama writers as a whole, and he agreed. "Literary Alabama: Is There Such a Thing As an 'Alabama Writer'?" has been on our site from the beginning.

This past spring, we asked local author and Auburn University English instructor Peter Huggins to make a video with us and say something about his relationship with Alabama. Fortunately for us, Peter had recently published an essay on the meaning of place in literature, and he adapted it for our purpose. The resulting video, "Where Are You From?", is now on our Web site and available for viewing.

Midge Coates, Project Manager
This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape

This Day in Alabama Literary History

We've just added a fun new feature to the home page of This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape. We call it "This Day in Alabama Literary History."

When you access our home page, a program embedded in the page code automatically checks the day's date and presents you with a list of events in Alabama literary history associated with that date. If you want to see what happened on another date, you can use the menus to select any combination of month and day.

You can subscribe to an RSS feed for "This Day in Alabama Literary History" by clicking on the feed icon in the lower left corner of the TGL home page.

There are still a few blank spots on the calendar that we would like to fill. If you know about a historic event related to Alabama literature and you would like us to include it, please tell us in the Comments section or use the Suggestion Form from the Web site.

Midge Coates, Project Manager
This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape