Timothy Dodd is the kind of writer we need now. An author with a clear vision and the talent to see it through. And we benefit from that effort with collections such as his newest, Fissures. Grab that book HERE. I’d hoped to talk with Tim for a long time and, now that I have, … Continue reading In Conversation with Timothy Dodd
“Yeah, this Looneyville to Spencer was my second route for Hy-Grade,” Dad says, turning up the holler they call Long Ridge. He’s done ninety percent of the talking since we got in the car this morning, all of it since we left the cemetery where his grandfather is buried. “Hot dogs, cold cut—s, Buzz Buttered … Continue reading MEAT ROUTES by Timothy Dodd
Breece D’J Pancake’s original outline from Thomas Douglass’s book A Room Forever: “Of Time and Virgins” – A stream of consciousness narrative as a young man tries to make a decision whether he should propose to a virgin he just met. He reviews the four great loves of his life, see how each falls prey to … Continue reading To Collaborate with Greatness, Part 3: “Of Time and Virgins” by Steve Lambert
Breece D’J Pancake’s original outline from Thomas Douglass’s book A Room Forever: “Joe Holly and Buck” – Two hill countrymen, one black, one white, begin their friendship on a bus migration from the hills and coal camps of West Virginia to Detroit’s auto plants in search of something better than mining. While there the black … Continue reading To Collaborate with Greatness, Part 2: “Joe Holly and Buck” by Adam Van Winkle
Pancake’s original outline from Thomas Douglass’s book A Room Forever: “‘Conqueror’ is a story of alcoholism and war. A fifty-nine year old disabled Vet takes his son on one last camping trip before the boy goes off to college, and for the first time in the boy’s history the man goes off on a bender … Continue reading To Collaborate with Greatness, Part 1: “Conqueror” by Patrick Trotti
Breece D’J Pancake got his start learning to tell stories at hardware stores and outside churches during altar call, at the pumps of small gas stations and in his own kitchen, places were people with stories found themselves gathered and in need of entertainment. Those early days listening and learning how to tell his own … Continue reading To Collaborate with Greatness, A Three-Part Series: Introduction
Dad at 40 Remembers You and Bob Terry moved the outhouse four feet backward in the dead midnight of possum and starshine and how your father hitched his overalls up and walked into the foul pit. He tanned your ass while Bob ran away. Thirty years later you giggle at the memory in … Continue reading THREE POEMS by Rusty Barnes
Willie Davis’s debut novel Nightwolf, published in July from 7.13 Books, moves fluidly through the streets of Lexington, Kentucky and explores the ties of family and place and friends, loss, memory, and longing, as well as anything written this past year. That’s a lot for a first-time novelist to take on, but Davis seems to … Continue reading LAUGH OR CRY: THE COMPLEXITIES OF WILLIE DAVIS’S NIGHTWOLF by Sheldon Lee Compton
Tater parked his truck on the side of the single-lane gravel road. He grabbed his guitar case, got out, and walked across the old covered bridge which had been declared unsafe and condemned years ago. Humans and wildlife could pass at their own risk, but forbidden that cars and trucks drive on the rickety heap. … Continue reading BLUESMAN OF THE WOODS by Jeremy Perry
by Sheldon Lee Compton Chris Offutt has been busy the last few years. A new memoir and a new novel are enough evidence of that. But he’s also busy with other projects, projects where he can use his hands to create things. This is the kind of thing Chris does because he is Chris. … Continue reading ‘Writing is a way of going home’ – An interview with Kentucky’s native son Chris Offutt
