num_pages: 311
description: 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 thisIncludes:Our Uncle Willem Stanfield by Howard BahrThe good neighbors by John BoyerDear friend by Rick BraggThose summer Sundays by Andrea Hollander BudyAn explanation by Andrea Hollander BudyIn the thirteenth year of the jonquil by David E. CampbellJoe and Sheila by Marshall ChapmanLike kudzu by Ryan ClarkPulp fishin' by Jim DeesTaking off from Welty by Ellen DouglasSpleen by Ann Fisher-WirthWhere, beneath the magnolia by Ann Fisher-WirthStrawberry fizzle by Kristin GrantWhen the fish don't bite by Jason HeadleyThe beauty seat by Ingrid HillThe thing with feathers by Suzanne HudsonCicadas by Cecilia JohnsonIn the tall grass by Bret Anthony JohnstonThe midwife's son by Suzanne KingsburyGhost dance by Chip LivingstonLost, not lost by Humphreys McGeeJimmy the playwright began to slur by Jeff McNeilTalk by Diane McWhorterBroad and Jackson by Carol MegathlinRehab by Janet NodarChicken bone man by Anna OlswangerThe cryptograph by Nic PizzolattoChitlins by Robert St. JohnThe turkey hunt by Philip ShirleyDown there on a visit by Charles SimicShadow and Solomon by Mac WalcottA full boat by Daniel WallaceThe Freddies by M.O. WalshA map of the forest by Marly Youmans
language: English
title: Stories From The Blue Moon Cafe IV
titlecomplete: Stories From The Blue Moon Cafe IV
genres: Short Stories
ratings_count: 27
series: Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe
publisher: MacAdam/Cage