It’s not often that you can pinpoint the reading of a particular book as life-changing.  Rummaging through a box of a stranger’s discarded books in 2009, my eye was caught by the cover of Harry Crews’ 1,230 more words

“Scott McClanahan is a powerful, exceptional writer, and the overall effect of reading his deceptively simple stories is like getting hit in the head by a champion cage fighter cranked up on meth that was cooked in a trailer without running water in some Kentucky backwoods where people sing murder ballads to their children to put them to sleep.” –  DONALD RAY POLLOCK, author of The Devil All the Time… 241 more words

Last week end I went to Vincennes at the east of Paris to the Festival America where I saw and listened to a number of American Writers that I wasn’t familiar with Amongst these writers, were Tim Gautreaux and Donald Ray Pollock.  205 more words

I ventured out of my usual reading habits with this one, and that’s thanks to a friend and writer who I admire greatly. “ Knockemstiff” is a collection of fictional short stories about a real town in Southeast Ohio.  676 more words