Monday, December 10, 2012
Inside CL / A&E Wyatt Williams returns to 'Creative Loafing' as culture editor
Posted by Debbie Michaud @DebsMichaud on Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:40 AM
Wyatt's writing has also appeared in the Literary Review, HTMLGiant, Fanzine, Nylon, and elsewhere, and has worked on two oral history volumes, Underground America and Out of Exile, published by McSweeney's. He returns to CL after a stint at Atlanta Magazine as its deputy food editor.
"Simply put, Creative Loafing is the most essential publication in Atlanta and I'll be happy to argue with you if you disagree with me," he says. "The culture of Atlanta is a big, complicated organism, like a multi-headed dragon with Tyler Perry, Natasha Trethewey, Lauri Stallings, Arthur Blank, Don Lemon, Grant Henry, Young Jeezy, Radcliffe Bailey, and Susan Booth working together and sometimes against one another. What I'm trying to say is that cultural production is a messy, beautiful story in Atlanta. I'm hoping that we can keep trying to make sense of it. And, considering the fact that the New York Times can't write a story about the South without making us sound like a deprived cultural wasteland of yokels, I figure it's up to us to get the story right and tell it to the rest of world."
And there you have it.
Comments (7)
Showing 1-7 of 7
Readers also liked…
-
KSU plans to break world record with Peace Project 1
6000 attendees expected to show up to make the biggest human peace sign. Ever!
-
Don't MEME me, bro! Or, Charles Ramsey's lasting cultural significance 15
Kidnapped from our collective consciousness, the Charles Ramseys of the world are coming back to entertain and, in some ways, haunt us
Latest in Fresh Loaf
-
CL named AAN Award finalist in two categories 4
Carmichael recognized for columns; Davis, Chambers, English nominated for photography
-
'The Atlanta Way' documentary filmmaker discovers why 'gentrification' is a four-letter word 1
Full-length documentary debuts this fall on Atlanta's controversial 20-year effort to purge the city of its low-income housing projects
-
White House recognizes State Rep. Simone Bell as a 'Harvey Milk Champion of Change'
'When I first ran for office I couldn't bring myself to watch the Harvey Milk Story'
- More »
More by Debbie Michaud
-
Two new arts centers for Atlanta on the Westside and in downtown 1
c4 holds a fundraiser at FUSE and the Westside Cultural Arts Center finally gears up to open
-
Scenes from WonderGlo 2013
The event attempts to rethink the typical - and typically stuffy - approach to the arts benefit by transforming the W Midtown with art installations and experiences
- More »
Search Fresh Loaf
People who saved…
Top Commenters
