John S. Sledge

Biography

John S. Sledge is an architectural historian with the Mobile Historic Development Commission in Alabama. He served as books editor for the Mobile Press Register for seventeen years. His most recent book is Southern Bound: A Gulf Coast Journalist on Books, Writers, and Literary Pilgrimages of the Heart (University of South Carolina Press).

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CRITICISM

Meant to Cook

By John S. Sledge

Foods and culinary customs from several ethnic groups and every region of the United States are presented, but the Southwest and South are the most memorably conjured. In “Puffballs: Finding the Inside,” English professor Thomas Fox Averill...
CRITICISM

Defending ‘The Jingle Man’

By John S. Sledge
CRITICISM

A Master Essayist Releases a New Collection

By John S. Sledge

Well into the wee hours, I stumbled downstairs and stretched out on an overstuffed leather couch, with several copies of the American Scholar to speed me into dreamland. And it was there that I discovered Joseph Epstein, or Aristides, as...

A Southwestern Classic Turns Eighty

By John S. Sledge