Whatsoever things are good and lovely and of a good report, think on, meditate on these things With that premise in mind, Hope for a Hopeless Society was born.

Money is a young kingpin controlling the drug trade in New York City. He's rich, ruthless and a self-made millionaire. Murder is the best high school basketball player in the country destined for the NBA. However, he refused to stop balling in the deadly streets of Wilmington, DE. Money and Murder meet at a family reunion in NYC, before walking away from the streets for good; they form an allegiance and take the game to another level, one...last...time.

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The profiles of the thirteen southern writers in this book show how growing up in the South shaped their work and contributed to the estimable collection of literature we call "southern writing." For years, critics have attempted to analyze and define "southern" literature. The patterns that emerge through these interviews offer clues to that diversity through the cultural, economic, and social experiences of the writers. The writers represented here, all born in the first half of the Twentieth Century, are Shelby Foote, Eudora Welty, Lee Smith, Fred Chappell, Elizabeth Spencer, Richard Marius, George Garrett, Jayne Anne Phillips, Elizabeth Cox, Allen Wier, Willie Morris, Yusef Komunyadaa, and Doris Betts. Their work reflects a unique view of an Old South that slowly began to evolve into a landscape dotted with shopping malls and criss-crossed with interstate highways. But in their stories and novels they have preserved the best of the old, insulated towns they grew up in, as well as the worst of the conflicts southerners of all colors endured.