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W. Ralph Eubanks

@wralpheubanks.bsky.social

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A writer and essayist whose work focuses on race, identity, and the culture and literature of the American South. President, Authors Guild

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W. Ralph Eubanks @wralpheubanks.bsky.social · Apr 14

On Radiooo, Imani Perry’s Black in Blues, and the poetry of Joseph Fasano.
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The Monday Media Diet with W. Ralph Eubanks

On Radiooo, Imani Perry’s Black in Blues, and Joseph Fasano

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W. Ralph Eubanks @wralpheubanks.bsky.social · 19h

Unfortunately this is the last isdue of Switchyard. No one anticipated such a swift and sudden end to Switchyard, but in just five issues Ted Genoways built an impressive body of work with amazing writers and artists. www.switchyardmag.com/issue-5/edit...

Nothing Gold Can Stay — Switchyard

By Ted Genoways

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W. Ralph Eubanks @wralpheubanks.bsky.social · 19h

On January 24, 2025, Switchyard gathered dozens of writers, radio producers, nonprofit leaders, educators, and thinkers at their headquarters in Tulsa to collectively imagine—and reckon with—what the next four years will be like. Proud to hve been a part of it.
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Is This the End of Democracy? — Switchyard

By The Editors

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W. Ralph Eubanks @wralpheubanks.bsky.social · 1d

My first event for "When It's Darkness on the Delta" will be on January 13, 2026, at Square Books in Oxford Mississippi. I'll be in conversation with Wright Thompson, author of "The Barn." Mark your calendars now.squarebooks.com/event/2026-01-…

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W. Ralph Eubanks @wralpheubanks.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve refreshed the look of my website, making it much cleaner and easier to navigate. This is what can be accomplished when there is a professional doing the work (I did the old version). www.wralpheubanks.com

W. Ralph Eubanks @wralpheubanks.bsky.social · 4d

“So many restaurants are catering to the new D.C.; Georgia Brown’s spoke to the old D.C. — Chocolate City,” said the cultural scholar W. Ralph Eubanks, using the nickname that the funk musician George Clinton bestowed on Washington in 1975.
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Is This the End of an Era for Soul Food in Washington?

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W. Ralph Eubanks @wralpheubanks.bsky.social · 14d

And here is October Brown,” my favorite story from “Rattlebone.” mcnallyeditions.substack.com/p/october-br...

"October Brown," by Maxine Clair

a story from "Rattlebone," originally published in 1994

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W. Ralph Eubanks @wralpheubanks.bsky.social · 14d

“I think it’s quite a feat if you can write a story that gives humanity to all the people you put on the page.” Rattlebone was quite a feat, and Maxine Clair left a book in the world that readers will never forget. mcnallyeditions.substack.com/p/rememberin...

Remembering Maxine Clair

An essay by W. Ralph Eubanks on "Rattlebone," Clair's masterpiece.

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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 14d

It’s COVER REVEAL Friday in the house for @wralpheubanks.bsky.social!

WHEN IT’S DARKNESS ON THE DELTA unearths the Mississippi Delta’s buried history, revealing a microcosm of economic oppression in the US and the seeds of transformation.

Watch this space in January 2026!

Cover design: Louis Roe

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W. Ralph Eubanks @wralpheubanks.bsky.social · 19d

A $35 Chicken Dinner in Mississippi? How New York Prices Went National. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/d...

A $35 Chicken Dinner in Mississippi? How New York Prices Went National.

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W. Ralph Eubanks @wralpheubanks.bsky.social · 21d

“So much of White America has a one-dimensional idea of blackness . And she was trying to capture it in all its complexity.” www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

Quitting her job to write, Maxine Clair won acclaim for ‘Rattlebone’

Ms. Clair, who has died at 86, worked at a D.C. hospital before writing “Rattlebone,” a story collection about a Black community in the 1950s. Critics swooned.

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W. Ralph Eubanks @wralpheubanks.bsky.social · 22d

I was saddened to hear today of the death of the writer Maxine Clair. Her novel in stories “Rattlebone” is one that deserves to be brought out of the shadows and into the spotlight . thesewaneereview.com/articles/man...

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Longtail News @longtail.news · 23d

Feed: "South Side Weekly"
By: Delaney Eubanks on Wednesday, September 17, 2025

The Lost Neighborhood of Maxwell Street Market

Project Onward’s exhibition “Poor Man’s Paradise” is an homage to the historic open air market.

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W. Ralph Eubanks @wralpheubanks.bsky.social · 23d

America can learn from the Germans. Hire alles ist nicht klargekommen.

Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 23d

“ABC and CBS are making a serious miscalculation. Their servility to Trump will not earn them peace, only greater pressure.”

That’s the German professional association of journalists, @djv.de, calling on major US media to support their journalists instead of preemptively silencing them.

Nicht vor MAGA-Kult einknicken

Der Deutsche Journalisten-Verband ruft die Verantwortlichen der großen US-Medien dazu auf, ihren Journalistinnen und Journalisten den Rücken zu stärken, statt…

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W. Ralph Eubanks @wralpheubanks.bsky.social · 23d

“Music, and specifically the blues, was an integral part of Maxwell Street. In order to be heard over all the market din, electric guitars would be plugged in outside storefronts.” Yes, Chicago is Mississippi north. southsideweekly.com/the-lost-nei...

The Lost Neighborhood of Maxwell Street Market

Project Onward’s exhibition “Poor Man’s Paradise” is an homage to the historic open air market.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26d

these are segregationists

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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · 28d

The Authors Guild has partnered with James Patterson for his inaugural “Go Finish Your Book” grant, which awards up to $50,000 each to authors completing their works in progress.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4mcZFac

Authors Guild Members Win James Patterson Grants - The Authors Guild

The Authors Guild partnered with James Patterson this spring to identify candidates for his inaugural “Go Finish Your Book” grants of up to $50,000 each, providing crucial financial support to help au...

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W. Ralph Eubanks @wralpheubanks.bsky.social · 29d

“As part of the orientation, Residents are given copies of W. Ralph Eubanks’ book, A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape.”
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GME program tells local history to boost today’s patient outcomes

An innovative orientation explores local history to enable incoming resident physicians to connect with patients and understand community needs.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · Sep 10

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

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W. Ralph Eubanks @wralpheubanks.bsky.social · Sep 10

“There are so many stories across this state that are buried or truly hiding in plain sight. People who want to tell those stories might not yet have found the right path to tell them. This residency could be life-changing for them and for us all.” mississippitoday.org/2025/09/09/g...

A new home for Mississippi writers on William Faulkner’s old mule farm - Mississippi Today

Plans for the Greenfield Farm Writers Residency, a retreat-style home for 40-50 writers per year on William Faulkner's old mule farm in north Mississippi, are moving forward.

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W. Ralph Eubanks @wralpheubanks.bsky.social · Sep 5

At this year's Mississippi Book Festival, I will be part of the Monument Lab Bulletin panel. We'll be discussing the current issue of the Bulletin, titled Reverence, which honors the 70th anniversary of the lynching of Emmett Till.
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Monument Lab Bulletin Panel Discussion — W. Ralph Eubanks

The Reverence issue of Monument Lab’s Bulletin honors the 70th anniversary of Emmett Till’s lynching. This panel discussion of the contents of this issue of the Bulletin will include contributors Yolanda Wisher (moderator), Patrick Weems, C. Leigh McInnis, Gloria Dickerson, and W. Ralph Eubanks.

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W. Ralph Eubanks @wralpheubanks.bsky.social · Sep 4

“The prospect that one day the university would commemorate such a brave act of radical activism, much less speak about it openly, seemed impossible,” Eubanks said. “Today, we are officially breaking the silence about the Fulton Chapel Black Power protest.” thedmonline.com/plaque-place...

Plaque placed outside Fulton Chapel to honor Ole Miss 8

The University of Mississippi has unveiled a plaque commemorating a 1970 campus protest by Black students at Fulton Chapel. A

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W. Ralph Eubanks @wralpheubanks.bsky.social · Sep 2

Having a phone with an area code outside of Mississippi allows me to use BlueSky on my phone.

W. Ralph Eubanks @wralpheubanks.bsky.social · Aug 28

“Seventy-five titles by or about Wittgenstein so far,” he said, referring to the Austrian philosopher….”And most of them are annotated, meaning Cormac read them closely. A lot of Hegel. That was his light evening reading, apparently.” www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...

Two Years After Cormac McCarthy's Death, Rare Access to His Personal Library Reveals the Man Behind the Myth

The famously reclusive novelist amassed a collection of thousands of books ranging in topics from philosophical treatises to advanced mathematics to the naked mole-rat

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W. Ralph Eubanks @wralpheubanks.bsky.social · Aug 26

“When It’s Darkness on the Delta” is now available for preorder.

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