The Shadowland Journal: September 2015

Saturday, September 12, 2015

Coming Up - My South Carolina Tour for 'Our Man in Charleston'

SOUTH CAROLINA

Thursday, September 17th Charleston, SC - 12:00pm Blue Bicycle Luncheon Talk, Q&A, Signing Hall’s Chophouse

2:00pm Preservation Society of Charleston, Stock Signing Book & Gift Shop

6:00pm Barnes & Noble, Talk, Q&A, Signing 1812 Rittenberg Blvd

Friday, September 18th Pawleys Island, SC

11:00am – Discussion Moveable Feast Luncheon, Pawleys Plantation, book signing after.

2:00pm – 3:00pm Litchfield Books – Signing Only

Saturday, September 19th Little River, SC

11:00am – Discussion Moveable Feast Luncheon, 12:00pm - The Parson’s Table

Recent Speaking and Writing about Refugees and Migrants in Europe

My appearances on CNN talking about migrants and refugees in Europe:

http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2015/09/04/exp-dickey-syrian-refugees.cnn

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/04/outrage-isn-t-enough-to-end-syrian-refugee-crisis.html

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Cheap Outrage Won't Save Refugee Kids

Sep 2, 2015 2:43 PM EDT
Much more could be done to end the horror stories in the Mediterranean, the Balkans, and along the... MORE

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A Salvadoran father (R) carries his son while running next to another immigrant as they try to board a train heading to the Mexican-U.S. border, in Huehuetoca, near of Mexico City, June 1, 2015. An increasing number of Central Americans are sneaking across Mexico's border en route to the United States. Picture taken June 1, 2015. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido - RTR4YKNV

Fact: Immigrants Make Cities Safer

Aug 6, 2015 9:00 AM EDT
Politicians would rather talk about horrifying anecdotes and conventional wisdom than look at the... MORE

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Migrants who successfully crossed the Eurotunnel terminal walk on the side of the railroad as they try to reach a shuttle to Great Britain, on July 28, 2015 in Frethun, northern France. About 2,000 migrants tried to enter the Eurotunnel terminal in the French port town of Calais overnight in a desperate bid to reach England through the Channel tunnel, a spokesman said July 28.

Migrants' Desperate Chunnel Blitz

Jul 29, 2015 9:05 PM EDT
The danger of making their journeys, and possibility of death, doesn't deter the thousands of... MORE

Recent Writings About the American Civil War Past and Present

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Ken Burns' 'Civil War' After Dylann Roof
Sep 6, 2015 12:01 AM EDT
The PBS documentary turns 25 this year, just as the Charleston murders and the Confederate flag... MORE

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A man holds a U.S. flag while gathering with others on a sidewalk near the U.S. embassy (not pictured) in Havana, Cuba, August 14, 2015. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Cuba on Friday to raise the U.S. flag at the recently restored American Embassy in Havana, another symbolic step in improved relations between the two Cold War-era foes. The ceremony, raising the flag over the building for the first time in 54 years, will come nearly four weeks after the United States and Cuba formally renewed diplomatic relations and upgraded their diplomatic missions to embassies.

Cuba's Star-Spangled Slavery

Aug 15, 2015 12:13 AM EDT
The Stars and Stripes, not the Confederate flag, once represented the sordid system of human... MORE

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A British Spy in the Civil War South

Jul 27, 2015 11:45 AM EDT
Dickey describes his research into the story of British spy Robert Bunch, who watched the... MORE

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Confederates in the Blood

Jul 21, 2015 1:00 AM EDT
My new book looks at the raw truths of Southern history, but my family has been living that... MORE

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Confederate Madness Then and Now

Jul 14, 2015 1:10 AM EDT
A British consul witnessed the cynical process that plunged the United States into civil war in the... MORE

My Video Take on Trump, the Bully in the Pulpit @anderson360

What to make of @realDonaldTrump on #ForeignPolicy? He's a 'bully' using 'reality tv' strategy says @csdickey http://t.co/MUyBRnnqzA
— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) September 10, 2015

Tuesday, September 01, 2015

Barnstorming for "Our Man" - and Poetry!

Upcoming events - Please come if you're in the neighborhood - or even if you're not!

GEORGIA

September 2, 7:15 - Georgia Center for the Book - Talking about my father's last poems in "Death and the Day's Light"

September 3, 7:15 - Georgia Center for the Book - Talking about growing up in the South, and writing "Our Man in Charleston"

CONNECTICUT

September 8, 7:00 - RJ Julia Booksellers, Talk, Q&A, Signing, Madison, CT 06443

SOUTH CAROLINA

Thursday, September 17th Charleston, SC - 12:00pm Blue Bicycle Luncheon Talk, Q&A, Signing Hall’s Chophouse

2:00pm Preservation Society of Charleston, Stock Signing Book & Gift Shop

6:00pm Barnes & Noble, Talk, Q&A, Signing 1812 Rittenberg Blvd

Friday, September 18th Pawleys Island, SC

11:00am – Discussion Moveable Feast Luncheon, Pawleys Plantation, book signing after.

2:00pm – 3:00pm Litchfield Books – Signing Only

Saturday, September 19th Little River, SC

11:00am – Discussion Moveable Feast Luncheon, 12:00pm - The Parson’s Table