Noodling for Flatheads
Burkhard Bilger
Essays, 271 pages.

A series of essays looking at unusual pursuits and peculiarities off the US south. From barehanded fishing for catfish to cockfights to marbles for grownups to moonshining. All the things mentioned in this book are either marginalised or on the verge of dying out.

The author casts a sympathetic light over these activities and writes about them in a slightly nostalgic but not a condescending style.