level:deepsouth is a crowdsourced online anthology about growing up Generation X in the Deep South during the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s. The anthology is open to submissions of creative nonfiction and images, as well as to contributions for the lists. This page is a listing of editor Foster Dickson’s blog posts throughout the project.
March 1, 2023: three years of level:deepsouth— for Generation X
February 18, 2023: seeking submissions of . . . (music)
February 13, 2023: seeking submissions of . . . (movies)
January 26, 2023: The Death of Bear Bryant, 40 Years Later
January 5, 2023: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 37
December 17, 2022: South Carolina, ca. 1980
December 1, 2022: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 35: the Buford Pusser edition
November 22, 2022: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 35: the Iron Bowl (and other rivalries)
October 27, 2022: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 34
October 11, 2022: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 33: the Herschel Walker edition
September 22, 2022: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 32
August 30, 2022: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 31
August 25, 2022: seeking submissions of . . . (Lollapalooza)
August 11, 2022: seeking submissions of . . . (the HORDE tour)
July 28, 2022: (More) Portraits of the Editor as a Young GenXer
[The editor took a hiatus from May through July.]
April 26, 2022: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 30
April 19, 2022: Louisiana, ca. 1980
March 6, 2022: an editor’s reblog: “How Cool It Was— Back Then”
March 1, 2022: two years of level:deepsouth— for Generation X
February 24, 2022: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 29
February 22, 2022: seeking submissions of . . . (books)
February 17, 2022: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 28: a few from the ’70s
February 12, 2022: Georgia, ca. 1980
February 3, 2022: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 27: the post-Civil Rights edition
January 22, 2022: seeking submissions of . . . (images)
January 20, 2022: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 26: the mall edition
January 13, 2022: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 25
January 11, 2022: seeking submissions of . . . (music)
January 4, 2022: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 24
December 23, 2021: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 23: a look back at those looks back
December 14, 2021: the recent death of Anne Rice
December 9, 2021: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 22: the John Grisham edition
November 30, 2021: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 21: what’s up, 1987?
November 23, 2021: Mississippi, ca. 1980
November 13, 2021: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 20: movies set in the South
November 9: 2021: Alabama, ca. 1980
October 30, 2021: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 19
October 28, 2021: An editor’s reblog: “Six Pack” (1982)
October 21, 2021: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 18: the Halloween edition
October 11, 2021: An editor’s reblog: The Pascagoula Abduction, 1973
October 4, 2021: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 17
September 25, 2021: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 16
September 16, 2021: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 15: Baldwin Lee
September 9, 2021: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 14: mid-’90s edition
August 26, 2021: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 13
August 17, 2021: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 12
August 7, 2021: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 11: the skateboarding edition
July 29, 2021: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 10
July 20, 2021: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 9
July 8, 2021: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 8: the record store edition
July 1, 2021: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 7
June 26, 2021: Arkansas, 1993: A Brief Primer on the West Memphis Three
June 17, 2021: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 6
June 10, 2021: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 5
June 5, 2021: An almost summer Deep Southern Gen X sampler from the “the lists”
June 1, 2021: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 4
May 22, 2021: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 3
May 13, 2021: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 2
May 6, 2021: tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 1
March 27, 2021: An early springtime Deep Southern Gen X sampler from the “the lists”
March 10: 2021: Seeking submissions of . . . (movies)
March 1, 2021: One Whole Year
February 11, 2021: An editor’s reblog: “When reading meant everything”
January 30, 2021: A mid-winter Deep Southern Gen X sampler, from “the lists”
January 19, 2021: Seeking submissions of . . . (books)
January 12 , 2021: Seeking submissions of . . . (images)
December 5, 2020: Seeking submissions of . . . (festivals)
November 28, 2020: Another Deep Southern Gen X sampler, from the “the lists”
November 17, 2020: “The Lower End of the Highest Rates”
November 7, 2020: Seeking submissions of . . . (music)
October 13, 2020: A Deep Southern Gen X sampler, from the “the lists”
September 29, 2020: Got books?
September 24, 2020: A reading list from ‘level:deepsouth’ in-progress
September 15, 2020: “Say hi to your new mom!”
August 3, 2020: road trips— for the tame travels and messy adventures of Generation X
July 25, 2020: watch & listen— for the songs, records, tapes, CDs, concerts, movies, and TV show of Generation X
July 18, 2020: in print— for the books, magazines, libraries, bookstores, and bookshelves of Generation X
July 7, 2020: Portraits of the Editor as a Young GenXer
June 25, 2020: Some good things happened too.
June 15, 2020: Historians and Journalists on the Generation X South
May 16, 2020: Good Tunes: Local Music Festivals
April 16, 2020: Definitions, Numbers, an Exodus, and the Stories
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