THANK YOU PLEASE COME AGAIN : How Gas Stations Feed & Fuel the American South - A Photographic Road Trip by Kate Medley ~ with Powerful Opening Essay by Kiese Laymon.
THANK YOU PLEASE COME AGAIN is the documentation of Kate Medley’s many road trips across the South photographing our service stations, convenience stores, and quick stops. Along the way, Kate pulls over for tamales, fried fish, and banh mi, but her images uncover the people and landmarks that supply far more than food and gas.
In an ever more divided America, these iconic gathering spaces provide unexpected community, generosity, labor, and creativity. Are these rural and urban pit stops the true “filling stations” of our time? In words and nearly 200 incredible images from the American South, Kate Medley shares her answers.
THANK YOU PLEASE COME AGAIN is an art book and a heart book. We can’t wait for you to experience it.
Pre-order now available. Books ship Dec. 8!
• Hardbound
• 9'' x 11''
• 250 pages featuring nearly 200 photos
• Essays by Kiese Laymon & Kate Medley
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Kate Medley is a Durham, North Carolina-based visual journalist and filmmaker documenting the American South. Her work focuses on storytelling and environmental portraiture and often explores issues of social justice and the shifting politics of the region. As a kid growing up in Jackson, Mississippi, her first job was making snowballs at a gas station.
Kiese Laymon is a Black Southern writer from Jackson, Mississippi, and the Libbie Shearn Moody Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rice University in Houston. Laymon is the author of Long Division and How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. His best-selling Heavy: An American Memoir won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence and was named one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years by The New York Times.
