Stories from the Blue Moon Café III

Stories from the Blue Moon Café III PDF Author: Sonny Brewer
Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Publishing
ISBN: 9781931561785
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Book Description
Presents short stories set in the South, from such writers as Daniel Wallace, Rick Bragg, Mary Ward Brown, Juliana Gray, and Alix Strauss.

Stories from the Blue Moon Café III

Stories from the Blue Moon Café III PDF Author: Sonny Brewer
Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Publishing
ISBN: 9781931561785
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Book Description
Presents short stories set in the South, from such writers as Daniel Wallace, Rick Bragg, Mary Ward Brown, Juliana Gray, and Alix Strauss.

Stories from the Blue Moon Café IV

Stories from the Blue Moon Café IV PDF Author: Sonny Brewer
Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Publishing
ISBN: 9781596921429
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Book Description
A collection of essays, stories, and poems by thirty-two Southern writers, including Jim Dees, Bret Anthony Johnston, and Diane McWhorter.

Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe

Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe PDF Author: Sonny Brewer
Publisher: NAL
ISBN: 9780451210425
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Book Description
Thirty of today's finest Southern writers, including Pat Conroy and Rick Bragg, serve up an intoxicating blend of stories, essays, and poetry.

Stories from the Blue Moon Café II

Stories from the Blue Moon Café II PDF Author: Sonny Brewer
Publisher: NAL
ISBN: 9780451213617
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Book Description
The successor to Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe, this new collection of short stories, essays, and poetry continues to illustrate the extraordinary range of styles, topics, and themes in the grand Southern literary tradition.

Man in the Blue Moon

Man in the Blue Moon PDF Author: Michael Morris
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1414376855
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 413

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“He’s a gambler at best. A con artist at worst,” her aunt had said of the handlebar-mustached man who snatched Ella Wallace away from her dreams of studying art in France. Eighteen years later, that man has disappeared, leaving Ella alone and struggling to support her three sons. While the world is embroiled in World War I, Ella fights her own personal battle to keep the mystical Florida land that has been in her family for generations from the hands of an unscrupulous banker. When a mysterious man arrives at Ella’s door in an unconventional way, he convinces her he can help her avoid foreclosure, and a tenuous trust begins. But as the fight for Ella’s land intensifies, it becomes evident that things are not as they appear. Hypocrisy and murder soon shake the coastal town of Apalachicola and jeopardize Ella’s family.

Stories from the Blue Moon Café IV

Stories from the Blue Moon Café IV PDF Author: Sonny Brewer
Publisher: Lawson Library Paperbacks
ISBN: 9781596921016
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Anthrology of Southern writers

A Cast of Characters

A Cast of Characters PDF Author: Sonny Brewer
Publisher: MP Publishing
ISBN: 1596929294
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 151

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Book Description
From the Editor: An old friend of mine once said to me, “You oughta go ahead and get the graveyard people to cut your stone now. Have ’em write on there, ‘If this is anything like his life, he won’t be here long.’ ”I’ve thought a dozen times to get a paperweight-size version of that very epitaph. I’ll get around to it someday. Or the graveyard people will. Anyway, with this short attention span I’m blessed with, I sat at my breakfast table on an Alabama springtime morning, ideas sprouting like the green outside my window, and a thought ran by: What could we do differently with the Blue Moon Café anthology? Nothing wrong with it the way it is. But that’s not the point. I thought about that little hardback I bought in the Pensacola airport, which fit so nicely into my sport coat pocket, and which I finished before I completed the loop down and back from the Miami International Book Fair: Gabriel García Márquez’s Memories of My Melancholy Whores. I fell so in love with that small volume that I used a couple precious minutes of my allotted seven on the book fair panel to read from the brief work that extends infinitely in my mind. Aha! Let’s make the next Blue Moon Café book fit into a coat pocket, a purse. Let’s peg the meter with exceptional literary talent. Let’s give readers less on their plates, but more to digest. More provocation. More beauty, horror, and sadness. More loving insight into the comedy and tragedy of the human situation.And readers’ palates, of course, will judge the effort. Here’s betting their decision leads to a long life for this new edition of our book of stories served up from the Blue Moon Café.

Our Prince of Scribes

Our Prince of Scribes PDF Author: Nicole A. Seitz
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820354481
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Book Description
"Writer Pat Conroy passed away in 2016 at age 70. He was the author of The Water is Wide, The Great Santini, The Prince of Tides, and Beach Music, among other works. Several of his books have been made into movies starring actors including Robert Duvall, Barbra Streisand, and Jon Voight. This book collects in one volume seventy entries from people who all knew a different facet of Pat Conroy: writers, poets, editors, musicians, friends, classmates. Contributors include Rick Bragg, Kathleen Parker, Nikky Finney, Mary Alice Monroe, Dori Sanders, Ron Rash, Janis Ian, Tony Grooms, Patti Callahan Henry, Connie May Fowler, Sandra Brown, Jonathan Carroll, Jonathan Galassi, Nathalie Dupree, and Wendell Minor, as well as several members of the Conroy family. Additionally, the book includes a gallery of photos of Conroy, many never seen by the public before"--

Southern Writers on Writing

Southern Writers on Writing PDF Author: Susan Cushman
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496815017
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Book Description
Contributions by Julie Cantrell, Katherine Clark, Susan Cushman, Jim Dees, Clyde Edgerton, W. Ralph Eubanks, John M. Floyd, Joe Formichella, Patti Callahan Henry, Jennifer Horne, Ravi Howard, Suzanne Hudson, River Jordan, Harrison Scott Key, Cassandra King, Alan Lightman, Sonja Livingston, Corey Mesler, Niles Reddick, Wendy Reed, Nicole Seitz, Lee Smith, Michael Farris Smith, Sally Palmer Thomason, Jacqueline Allen Trimble, M. O. Walsh, and Claude Wilkinson The South is often misunderstood on the national stage, characterized by its struggles with poverty, education, and racism, yet the region has yielded an abundance of undeniably great literature. In Southern Writers on Writing, Susan Cushman collects twenty-six writers from across the South whose work celebrates southern culture and shapes the landscape of contemporary southern literature. Contributors hail from Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and Florida. Contributors such as Lee Smith, Michael Farris Smith, W. Ralph Eubanks, and Harrison Scott Key, among others, explore issues like race, politics, and family and the apex of those issues colliding. It discusses landscapes, voices in the South, and how writers write. The anthology is divided into six sections, including “Becoming a Writer;” “Becoming a Southern Writer;” “Place, Politics, People;” “Writing about Race;” “The Craft of Writing;” and “A Little Help from My Friends.”

The Poet of Tolstoy Park

The Poet of Tolstoy Park PDF Author: Sonny Brewer
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345476328
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Book Description
“The more you transform your life from the material to the spiritual domain, the less you become afraid of death.” Leo Tolstoy spoke these words, and they became Henry Stuart’s raison d’etre. The Poet of Tolstoy Park is the unforgettable novel based on the true story of Henry Stuart’s life, which was reclaimed from his doctor’s belief that he would not live another year. Henry responds to the news by slogging home barefoot in the rain. It’s 1925. The place: Canyon County, Idaho. Henry is sixty-seven, a retired professor and a widower who has been told a warmer climate would make the end more tolerable. San Diego would be a good choice. Instead, Henry chose Fairhope, Alabama, a town with utopian ideals and a haven for strong-minded individualists. Upton Sinclair, Sherwood Anderson, and Clarence Darrow were among its inhabitants. Henry bought his own ten acres of piney woods outside Fairhope. Before dying, underscored by the writings of his beloved Tolstoy, Henry could begin to “perfect the soul awarded him” and rest in the faith that he, and all people, would succeed, “even if it took eons.” Human existence, Henry believed, continues in a perfect circle unmarred by flaws of personality, irrespective of blood and possessions and rank, and separate from organized religion. In Alabama, until his final breath, he would chase these high ideas. But first, Henry had to answer up for leaving Idaho. Henry’s dearest friend and intellectual sparring partner, Pastor Will Webb, and Henry’s two adult sons, Thomas and Harvey, were baffled and angry that he would abandon them and move to the Deep South, living in a barn there while he built a round house of handmade concrete blocks. His new neighbors were perplexed by his eccentric behavior as well. On the coldest day of winter he was barefoot, a philosopher and poet with ideas and words to share with anyone who would listen. And, mysteriously, his “last few months” became years. He had gone looking for a place to learn lessons in dying, and, studiously advanced to claim a vigorous new life. The Poet of Tolstoy Park is a moving and irresistible story, a guidebook of the mind and spirit that lays hold of the heart. Henry Stuart points the way through life’s puzzles for all of us, becoming in this timeless tale a character of such dimension that he seems more alive now than ever.