08/05/2020
Something different about writing and other things in life.
About the author: "Odie Lindsey’s novel, Some Go Home, is set in Mississippi, a state whose music is often the most known representation of race, class, and cultural identity. Woven into the novel are threads of hill country blues, sacred steel gospel, and country. (The book takes its name from a 1970 Jerry Jeff Walker song.) Lindsey’s short fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories and earned an NEA arts grant. His story collection, We Come to Our Senses, was also published by W.W. Norton. He is writer-in-residence at Vanderbilt University’s Center for Medicine, Health, and Society."
I like to play an old vinyl copy of Willie Nelson’s Red Headed Stranger for my child. She’s six, and she perks up with the song “Hands on the Wheel,” which I have forever sung as her lullaby. She d…