John Meroney

traditions
A Tribute to a Football-Loving Father
A new dad reflects on family, traditions, and the things we carry with us

Arts & Culture
Recalling the Heat of a Cool Classic Movie
Even fifty-five years later, nobody holds a candle to Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke

Arts & Culture
Ian Somerhalder: From Bayou Kid to Hollywood Heavyweight
An interview with the Louisiana native, whose winding journey has taken him from Cajun cowboy to television star to bourbon boss

Arts & Culture
The Last of the Southern Girls
White House insider. Socialite. Best-selling author. Pioneering broadcaster. A torrid romance with Willie Morris. Barbara Howar of North Carolina did it all, living a life most of us can only imagine before eventually giving the finger to the spotlight. We tracked down one of the great—and largely overlooked—Southern heroines

The G&G Interview
Catching Up with Walton Goggins
The Georgia-raised actor on good cocktails, The Andy Griffith Show, and playing Southern right

Sporting
Vince Lombardi’s Southern Season
The Super Bowl trophy’s namesake spent his largely forgotten last season trying to turn a scruffy team of Southerners into NFL champions

Arts & Culture
Great Southern Movie Performances
Fifteen memorable movie characters

Arts & Culture
Delivering ‘Deliverance’
An oral history of one of the most unforgettable Southern movies of all time

Interview
The Other Leading Lady: Olivia de Havilland
The actress gives an inside account of the most successful film of all time

Arts & Culture
William Faulkner On Screen
As a screenwriter in Hollywood, the bard of Oxford wrote lines for Gary Cooper and Humphrey Bogart

Arts & Culture
William Faulkner’s Hollywood Odyssey
The biggest name in Southern lit didn’t spend his whole life in Mississippi