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In what he calls a "snapshot" of James Dickey in The Writer's Voice (1973), George Garrett has written, "Legends, myths, fables and fabliaux, anecdotes, quotations from, hard and funny sayings, true and false, wheel and flock about him, a shrill invisibl...

Glory came early in James Dickey's career: six years after his first collection appeared in Poets of Today VII (1960), he won the 1966 National Book Award for Buckdancer's Choice (1965); five years after that, his novel Deliverance (1970) and its movie v...

James Dickey was a visionary poet who sought transformation of the Self in order to live as fully as possible. Immersed in death encounters, he formulated a poetic vision dramatizing his heightened sense of renewal to experience, to life. At the same tim...

Photographs by Erin Patrice O'BrienYou've probably heard the buzz about Mase's reentry album, Welcome Back. You've most likely grooved to the set-up single, "Welcome Back," and bopped to the club-shaker "Breathe, Stretch, Shake." But it's a good bet that during the five years he's been...

Currently, up 10 spots on the Hot 100 (31-21), Ms. New Booty, by the Georgia native, Bubba Sparxxx, is gaining unbelievable steam with an estimated break into the Top 10 in two more weeks. But while everyone who knew of the country slangin’ MC is...

The committee that assigns Brecht Awards -- given for particularly lame political gambits -- had to take a couple of days to debate this one, but now it's official: Freddy's attack on "pay-to-pray" is a winner. To refresh: Freddy spoke at the Greater Highway Deliverance...

In the neighborhood of astronaut Lisa Nowak, parents are now able to play catch with their kids on balmy evenings. Instead of the hum of satellite trucks, they can hear birds chirping at sunset.Families who live near the astronaut accused of attempted murder are glad...

{In the following essay, Langen describes sex as a primal source of power that pervades James Dickey's novel Deliverance.

In the following essay, Suarez juxtaposes Dickey's novel with the film version of Deliverance.

Perhaps [the patterned brutality in Deliverance] is nothing more than a macabre symmetry, a grimly humorous instance of "poetic justice," in which each of the perverted primitives gets what he deserves where he deserves it. But there is something more; the neatly ironic balancing of sin and retribution, of crime and counter-crime, is transcended by the mystery formed between the civilized hunter and the primitive one. What results from this whirlwind weekend courtship with death is love. (p. 2...