An essential element in southern US fiction writing. No good southern fiction is complete without a dead mule. Academics and every day readers acknowledge this literary truth. The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature demonstrates on this premise and features stories with dead mules as elements as well as other fiction, poetry, and essays.

A cultural and aesthetic mind-state that prioritizes making money, even as an “underground” or “radical” creator. The work isn’t made for money, but it’s the money that matters the most.