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Register Aug. 3 for in-person and online ORICL courses  Posted at “Great Monsters of the 20th Century” such as Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin. “Outsiders’ Effects on Native Americans.” “Outline of the MexicanPast.” “The Story of the 1958 National Championship Oak Ridge Football Team.”   These are a few of the history classes being offered in person for the fall term of the Oak Ridge Institute for Continued Learning (ORICL). Most of the smorgasbord of 59 courses will be presented in person but a few will be online via Zoom or as hybrid classes (in person and online...

George Singleton joins Walter Edgar to talk about his new collection of short stories, You Want More, some of his favorite stories, and his life as a writer.

The Tuscaloosa News In these difficult times, humorists are to be treasured. We should take them hot soup, make sure they are dressed warmly. We need them and there are too few — Roy Blount, George Singleton, Tim Dorsey, Carl Hiaasen, a few others. Paraphrasing the statement about the famous bird: humorists don’t do one thing except make jokes for us to enjoy, and Harrison Scott Key is one of the best, winning, in 2015, the James Thurber Prize for his first book, a memoir about growing up in Coldwater, Mississippi, in a complicated family with a very difficult father. The family was comp...

Fluhr EDWARDSVILLE — A motorist who allegedly struck a man after exiting a transit bus in Madison County is accused of negligence.  Ralster Cole filed a complaint March 9 in the Madison County Circuit Court against George Singleton.  Cole alleges in his suit that around 5 a.m. on Nov. 25, 2019, he was exiting a transit bus at the bus stop near Highway 111 and Gateway Commerce Center Drive. He claims that he looked both ways as he tried to cross Gateway Commerce Center Drive when Singleton, who was driving his vehicle and turning left from Highway111, struck hi...

Eleanor J. Bader talks with Jon Sealy about his third novel, The Merciful, as well as morality, ethics, the state of Southern literature, the business of publishing, and the pandemic. Everyone in the small, picturesque town of Overlook, South Carolina, has an opinion about the death of nineteen-year-old college student Samantha James. After all, although the facts seem straightforward— Samantha was on her bicycle, pedaling along a dark, but familiar, country road to meet her boyfriend, when she was hit by a car driven by Daniel Hayward—there are a slew of questions about what she was doi...