Stories from the Blue Moon Café IV / edited by Sonny Brewer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brewer, Sonny.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Southern States--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Southern States.

Manners and customs.

Short stories, American--Southern States.

Short stories, American.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

311 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, CA : MacAdam/Cage, [2005]

Summary:

Proving that the waters of Southern talent run deep and traditions are meant to be both honored and stood on their ear, the third volume of Stories from the Blue Moon Caf? IV presents the most talented practitioners of Southern writing. This year's anthology includes writing from Rick Bragg, William Gay, and Suzanne Hudson amongst others. Readers need not ever have set a foot south of the Mason-Dixon Line to appreciate the bold, the brash, the horrifying and the humorous short stories, essays, poems, and even songs from the South's preeminent authors and its strongest new voices gathered together for a feast in Stories from the Blue Moon Caf? IV. Fans of Southern literature cannot miss this!

Contents:

#t Our Uncle Willem Stanfield / #r Howard Bahr

#t Good neighbors / #r John Boyer

#t Dear friend / #r Rick Bragg

#t Those summer Sundays / #r Andrea Hollander Budy

#t An explanation / #r Andrea Hollander Budy

#t In the thirteenth year of the jonquil / #r David Campbell

#t Joe and Sheila / #r Marshall Chapman

#t Like kudzu / #r Ryan Clark

#t Pulp fishin' / #r Jim Dees

#t Taking off from Welty / #r Ellen Douglas

#t Spleen / #r Ann Fisher-Wirth

#t Where, beneath the magnolia / #r Ann Fisher-Wirth

#t Strawberry fizzle / #r Kristin Grant

#t When the fish don't bite / #r Jason Headley

#t The beauty seat / #r Ingrid Hill

#t The thing with feathers / #r Suzanne Hudson

#t Cicadas / #r Cecilia Johnson

#t In the tall grass / #r Bret Anthony Johnston

#t The midwife's son / #r Suzanne Kingsbury

#t Ghost dance / #r Chip Livingston

#t Lost, not lost / #r Humphreys McGee

#t Jimmy the playwright began to slur / #r Jeff McNeil

#t Talk / #r Diane McWhorter

#t Broad and Jackson / #r Carol Megathlin

#t Rehab / #r Janet Nodar

#t Chicken bone man / #r Anna Olswanger

#t The cryptograph / #r Nic Pizzolatto

#t Chitlins / #r Robert St. John

#t The turkey hunt / #r Philip Shirley

#t Down there on a visit / #r Charles Simic

#t Shadow and Solomon / #r Mac Walcott

#t A full boat / #r Daniel Wallace

#t The Freddies / #r M.O. Walsh

#t A map of the forest / #r Marly Youmans.

ISBN:

1596921420

OCLC:

62044633