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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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 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 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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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.

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

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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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.

American Book Publishing Record

American Book Publishing Record PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 676

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Climbing Mt. Cheaha

Climbing Mt. Cheaha PDF Author: Donald R. Noble
Publisher: Livingston Press (AL)
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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A collection of short stories by Alabama writers who have had three or fewer fiction books published.

A Blues Bibliography

A Blues Bibliography PDF Author: Robert Ford
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135865078
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 2397

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Book Description
A Blues Bibliography, Second Edition is a revised and enlarged version of the definitive blues bibliography first published in 1999. Material previously omitted from the first edition has now been included, and the bibliography has been expanded to include works published since then. In addition to biographical references, this work includes entries on the history and background of the blues, instruments, record labels, reference sources, regional variations and lyric transcriptions and musical analysis. The Blues Bibliography is an invaluable guide to the enthusiastic market among libraries specializing in music and African-American culture and among individual blues scholars.

The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure

The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure PDF Author: Jack Pendarvis
Publisher: Anchor Canada
ISBN: 0385673094
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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Book Description
This debut collection of stories holds a fun house mirror to the everyday lives of characters as empathetic as they are absurd. You’ve met the characters in The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure. They’re the quirky visionaries and misguided dreamers we all know. . .and might even be. These characters are absurd, hilarious, and completely believable. From the self-appointed historian of the title piece to the frustrated wage slaves of "Our Spring Catalog" and "The Pipe," these are individualists who don’t quite adhere to mainstream ideals. Pendarvis draws his humor from the world of high school ambitions and misunderstood intentions allowed to breathe and take shape. Always original but somehow familiar, these are stories plugged into the collective unconscious of our imaginary lives. Jack Pendarvis’s work is difficult to describe but a pleasure to experience, infused with humanity and laugh-out-loud funny. Comedic literary talent of this caliber is rare.

When I Was a Loser

When I Was a Loser PDF Author: John McNally
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416539379
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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For Anyone Who's Ever Been a Teenager Who's teenage years weren't terrible? Remember the scary older kids? The sadistic gym teacher? The smelly kid who sat next to you in science class? Your first fumbling kiss? That time you threw up in the cafeteria? Your first attempt at putting on a condom? The period that arrived unexpectedly? That awful fight with your parents? The first time you got drunk? That note you wrote that you shouldn't have written? The day you forgot to zip your fly? That monster zit? When, you wondered, would it all end? In When I Was a Loser, John McNally, author of the novel America's Report Card, assembles twenty-five original essays--often hilarious, sometimes tenderhearted, always evocative--about defining moments of high school loserdom. Brad Land, Julianna Baggott, Owen King, Johanna Edwards, and many more fresh, talented writers explore their own angst, humiliation, heartache, and other staples of teen life. These essays perfectly capture what it was like to be in high school: to experience so many things for the first time, to assert independence while desperately trying to fit in, to feel misunderstood and unable to articulate the wild swings between heartbreak, anger, and euphoria. One writer recalls how his grandmother helped him with his home perm in preparation for the Senior Class picture; another recounts her discovery, sometime after hitting puberty, of the power she held over boys and men, while at the same time she felt herself at their mercy; a third remembers the casual cruelties visited on him by the cooler kids, and the cruelties he, in turn, inflicted on kids below him on the social ladder. Utterly candid and compulsively readable, these essays conjure up and untangle those raw and formative years. The writers cringe and laugh at the teenagers they were, but at the same time, they honor their adolescence and the way it shaped their lives. Because, in truth, beneath the layers of adult respectability, we all still carry a little bit of our teenage selves around with us.

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.