The second volume of the Sandusky Review, “Sleeping Aides and Razorblades,” is two intertwined stories set in Jackson, Mississippi. It tastes like ripped-knee bluejeans, punk rock, making out, getting your heart broken, Eudora Welty, the Jitney 14, and blowing all your tips at a dive bar before you can pay your rent.
In other words: life in the glorious South. Send it to your friends, rockers!! There are physical versions available, with alternate covers that I like a lot better than this one.
Sandusky Review No. 2 – Sleeping Aides and Razor Blades (1.9 megs).
The Sandusky Review vol. II is under a Creative Commons license.
Tags: Eudora Welty, Sandusky Review
I’m still playing around with the format of the .pdf. The text read better when done this way, but it garbled the color of the covers a bit. I also deferred to the two-page layout so it more accurately reproduced the physical experience of reading the artifact.
It’s also tough because this one is a flipbook; you can start reading with either the boy (sleeping aides) or the girl (razorblades). They both end up, metaphorically and literally, at the Jitney at the end of their stories.
Please feel free to offer suggestions on how to do it better—or, make your own, and send it to me.
Oh.
MY.
GAWD!
This is true. The words are true. The image is true. The details. JEEEE-ZUS! The details. All true. Reality captured.
True. True. All so damned
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I would sat this is brilliant, but I can’t.
It’s better than that.
say this is brilliant… not sat. fingers stunned.
Every time I read this I love it more. But, I think I love SR3 even more. Get it out there!
Agreed. This is quite a wonderful piece. I was quite captivated by the “Jitney Jungle” and it’s attending stories.
This week I read To Kill a Mockingbird for the (gasp) first time. When H. Lee mentioned the Jitney Jungle, I said, “Hey, that’s what gorjus was talking about.”
Thanks for posting.
I’d forgotten how good this is. How good? Real good.
I’m sorry, did brd say this was the FIRST time he read To Kill A Mockingbird?? Dude, that’s just wrong.
I’m going to send this link to some friends from high school, I know they’d appreciate it. I love you and think you rock.
Aw now, we’ve all gotta read it for the first time sometime.
I think I need to read it again this summer. Also: Huck! Also: more comic books.
I’ve never read To Kill A Mockingbird…and that’s not the least of the shameful literary skeletons I keep in my closet. I always had other things to read before something like that and school never made me. Oh well. Did they ever make it into a comic? Maybe I could get that.
Some of you may remember when AFI did their Greatest Heroes/Villains in film countdown a few years ago. Darth Vader brought down the no. 1 spot for villian. And for hero? Atticus Finch. Presumably to assuage all of our southern liberal guilt.
But when you make a list like that, doesn’t the thought naturally crop up: what if they fought? Vader vs. Atticus Finch. Someone absolutely must write that comic.
As some of you may have seen, Atticus Finch contributed this timely op-ed to The Onion recently . . .
I watched a VHS of ‘Mockingbird’ last night (our cable was out). I’ve been wanting to see it again ever since I watched the movie “Tomorrow” on cable during a Horton Foote revue and the commentator revealed that the Robert Duvall of Foote’s Faulkner screenplay was Boo Radley of his Lee screenplay.
I wish Atticus had commented on that in the op-ed piece.