Joseph B. Atkins
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | journalist and journalism professor |
| Location | Oxford, Mississippi |
| Interests | labor, politics, writing, film noir, hardboiled crime stories, guitar, jazz, blues, country and classical music, the murals of Maxo Vanka. |
| Favorite movies | "Out of the Past", "Journey Into Fear", "Born to Kill", "The Uprising of '34", "Harlan County, U.S.A.", and "Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press" |
| Favorite music | Hank Snow, Charlie Haden, Django Reinhardt, Chet Baker, Peggy Lee, Mussorgski, Poulenc, and lots of rockabilly & rock 'n' roll. |
| Favorite books | Nelson Algren, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Cornell Woolrich and all the hardboiled writers, William Kennedy, Dorothy Day, and my buddies Ace Atkins and Jere Hoar |