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The Lousy Racket: Hemingway, Scribners & the Business of Literature
The Lousy Racket: Hemingway, Scribner's and the Business of Literature Robert W. Trogdon The Kent State University Press 2007 307 pages $30.00 While reading the first volume of Hemingway's letters published recently (they're up to volume IV now) I came across mention … Continue reading
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Tagged ernest hemingway, hemingway, maxwell perkins, review, robert w. trogdon, the lousy racket
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William Gay's Detective Novel
It's being released soon, according to the William Gay Archive and I think many of you will be interested. Here's the description. John Stoneburner, a jaded detective, has abandoned his office in Memphis to live on the banks of the … Continue reading
Southernmost, by Silas House
I've been looking forward to a new Silas House novel for years now. I've followed his career since I published his work in Night Train, and was extremely proud to have his blurb for my collection Mostly Redneck. His novels … Continue reading
Governor Seeks to Kill University Press of Kentucky?
Please don't let this happen. From Scott Jaschik at Inside Higher Ed. Kentucky governor Matt Bevin has proposed that some 70 small programs in the state budget be completely eliminated — as he also has proposed across-the-board cuts of around … Continue reading
Quick Hits–Paul D. Brazill
This post introduces something I hope will become a feature here at Fried Chicken and Coffee, quick interviews with writers in the crime or rural/Appalachian fiction scenes, and short takes on whatever writers I'm obsessed with at the moment. First … Continue reading
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Ernest Matthew Mickler's White Trash Cooking
by Michael Adno/Bitter Southerner In the 1980s, some folks wrote off Ernie Mickler, author of “White Trash Cooking,” as a yayhoo curiosity. Others thought him one of the most brilliant Southern folklorists and photographers of the 20th century. But perhaps … Continue reading
Forthcoming from Chris Offutt: Country Dark
ThisApril 2018 book by Chris Offutt seems to neatly cross two of my prime obsessions, crime fiction and Appalachia. Be sure to pick it up. It's a guaranteed good read. His first work of fiction in nearly two decades, (Country Dark is … Continue reading
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Summer, poem by Brenda Glasure
Some days I remember, but mostly the nights. We swallowed hard, Kentucky bourbon burn, Crudités of pretzels and Slim Jims and peanuts. We rubbed our eyes against the soft of dusk, birdsong slept, turned crickets and bullfrogs, the tight buzz of mosquitoes … Continue reading
A Dangerous Man, poem by Julia Shipley
Have you seen my blue-eyed goose? He asks. He keeps one among the regular geese in the grain room of his grandfather's barn, where they honk like broken trumpets as we approach. There are six, though you can't count these beaks, wings, crooked … Continue reading
