Gone South Podcast
J.B Beverly, as a guest, warmly shares his fond memories of our friend Dean.
Gone South podcast S4E16 The Legend of Dean Ripa - its free to listen but requires an Apple account
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"The Bushmaster" presented by Dean Ripa
Living With The Animals by Gary Indiana
Living with the Animals is an anthology of articles collected by Gary Indiana . . . A lantern-lit walk through the backwoods of your soul, with the creatures you live beside: dogs, birds, ghosts, in fur and scale, and in Dean's case, snakes!
Showcasing these various critters as the key mirror for your own wild heart.
The articles don't just talk about animals; they conjure them like spirits at the edge of a campfire.
Just as there is nothing more American than motherhood, apple pie, and a Sunday drive to nowhere after church, There is nothing more natural and supernatural than the way each voice testifies with part reverence and part reckoning, as if to live with an animal is to court the mystery of your own nature.
"Confessions of a Gaboon Viper Lover" by Dean Ripa is a haunting, poetic essay that transforms an account of a venomous snake into a meditation on beauty, danger, and the complex layers of human attachment.
Also Check out William S Burrough's contribution to this anthology.
Wilmington Star News May 2007
Q. How many times have you been bitten by snakes?
A. Eleven times by venomous snakes and I don't count the non-venomous bites.
Oxford American
Dean was forever memorialized in this amazing piece that is surely one of the modern building blocks for all future Southern Storytelling, but to borrow a line from Professor Brenner, “Once you make that bargain . . . the assignments start coming faster and faster.”