The Bitter Southerner exists to explore, from every possible angle, the duality of the Southern thing.| THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
Writing songs that are truly great is a hard enough job. Writing a perfect song is rare indeed. But in this remembrance of Tom Petty, Drive-By Truckers co-founder Patterson Hood argues that Petty achieved perfection repeatedly, perhaps more than any other Southern-born songwriter.| THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
Gabe Bullard takes a long, hard look at the history of hillbilly TV, from Andy Griffith to “Duck Dynasty.”| THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
How small game became a southern cliche — and what it would take to bring it back| THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
A band of activists has turned a fight over a forest in southeast Atlanta into a wide-ranging, no-holds-barred battle over the climate crisis, environmental justice, white supremacy, the future of policing, and the very nature of protest movements. But will it work?| THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
A man passes away without a word in the mountains of North Carolina, and his grandson sets out to write about the importance of a seemingly unimportant life.| THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
The shooting death of a protestor at the hands of police feels like both an inevitable outcome of this long battle over Atlanta’s South River Forest and a completely preventable tragedy.| THE BITTER SOUTHERNER