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The Free Farm: A Novel by Larry Smith
"Forbidden love. Counter-culture. The shadow of Vietnam. Sexual
revolution. Social unrest. Marijuana and LSD. In this intriguing
coming-of-age novel by Larry Smith, The Free Farm, we journey
back to America’s turbulent late 60s and early 70s…. Smith provides
a unique window into Lee’s young life that is driven by idealism,
love of Emerson and Thoreau, and devotion to his beautiful partner,
who practices Zen, meditates, and can fix cars….In this realistic yet
often surprising and tender novel, a quoted line from 'The Waking'
by Theodore Roethke serves as a guidepost: 'I wake to sleep, and
take my waking slow/ I feel my fate in what I cannot fear/ I learn by
going where I have to go.'"
~ Laura Treacy Bentley, author of Lake Effect
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Sinners of Sanction County: Stories
by Charles Dodd White
"Sinners of Sanction County is one of the best story collections to come
out of the American South in recent times. Writing in a spare, poetic
style that fairly crackles with energy, Charles Dodd White makes his
mark as a major new talent as he masterfully explores the raw beauty
and pathos of life among tough people caught in bad situations. With
this book, he has nailed the coonskin to the wall."
~Donald Ray Pollock, author of Knockemstiff
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Learning How: Stories, Tales & Yarns
by Richard Hague
22 Stories, Yarns, & Tales, rich in character, voice, and landscape.
"The fiction in this collection is as comforting as it is challenging, as
familiar as it is surprising, and, in all of the aspects that matter to
the serious reader of literature, it is thoroughly satisfying."
~Chris Holbrook, author of Upheaval
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Degrees of Elevation: Short Stories of Contemporary
Appalachia Edited by Charles Dodd White & Page Seay
A wonderful and rich collection of some of our best fiction writers
treating the American landscape of Appalachia and its people.
Writers include: Rusty Barnes, Sheldon Lee Compton, Jarrid Deaton,
Richard Hague, Silas House, Chris Holbrook, Denton Loving, Mindy
Beth Miller, John McManus, Jim Nichols, Valerie Nieman, Chris
Offutt, Mark Powell, Ron Rash, Alex Taylor, Crystal Wilkinson
"From manic to elegiac to rough, raw, beautiful, and heartbreaking,
these stories will strike the reader as both absolutely true and as
unforgettable, like the high pure ring of an ax on a cold winter
morning, vibrating across distance, hanging in the air long afterward."
-Lee Smith, author of Saving Grace
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Eclipse: Stories by Jeanne Bryner
These are powerful stories about the dignity, hope, wit, compassion,
and struggles of seemingly ordinary people in small town of Ohio,
West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Jeanne Bryner moves beyond
K-Mart class stereotypes into deeper spaces, uncovering a
complexity and variety of working-class lives few acknowledge."
~Janet Zandy
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Rushlight: Poems by Chris Green
Chris Green's Rushlight is a powerful new book of poems. Rushlights
were made from rushes growing in marshy ground by old-time working
people as substitutes for candles, to push against the darkness of the
night. For me, Chris’ poems light the world in a similar way. I see
better in my own dark through these brilliant poems, for which I
thank this very necessary writer.
— Gurney Norman, author of Kinfolks
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Blind Horse: Poems by Jeanne Bryner
"I hear the sweet drawl of country music lyric in Jeanne Bryner's
poems and the push and drive of a mountain fiddle too. Energetic
and clear-sighted, these poems are never afraid of their difficult
subjects....Jeanne Bryner is the real thing." ~Maggie Anderson
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Lake Effect: Poems by Laura Treacy Bentley
"Everywhere I look these days no poetry is being written. There is a
lot of pretend poetry, but nothing really this fine. With this book it
makes it very easy for me to say: Laura Bentley, I dub thee poet
supreme.” - Ray Bradbury
Laura’s love of the people and landscapes of West Virginia,
western Maryland, and Ireland is evident in her work. From earth to
sky, this collection merges a lake effect of meditations that creates its
own weather.
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Green-Silver and Silent: Poems
by Marc Harshman
*Poet Laureate of West Virginia
"Marc Harshman knows these people, these places, and he has the
wisdom of someone who knows when to be quiet, when to watch, and
listen, so that he can come to us and tell these heart-felt stories. These
poems earn their keep, weaving together the physical and spiritual
worlds in a landscape that can both sustain us and break our hearts."
-Jim Daniels, author of Show and Tell: Selected Poems
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