Stories from the Attic is the final collection by William Gay
…Wolfe, Flannery O’Connor, Truman Capote, and Erskine Caldwell. Gay was “a little put off” by Caldwell because the Georgia author wrote about white men mistreating African Americans and included scenes…
Bluegrass legend Roland White always put the music first
…of these types of musicians: “I wish I could do that, and then not do it.” But Roland is different. He’s been around long enough to differentiate between musical bluster…
Chris Offutt delivers another intense Kentucky thriller in Shifty’s Boys
…resident heroin dealer and son of Shifty Kissick, the local no-nonsense matriarch who always keeps a pistol by her side. When Mick visits Shifty to offer his condolences, she asks…
Emma Straub’s This Time Tomorrow takes its middle-aged heroine back to her teens
…journey, and, ultimately, gains maturity. In This Time Tomorrow, the central character, Alice Stern, is not a child but a geriatric Millennial. Approaching 40, Alice is placidly skating along the periphery…
Love rules in Adriana Trigiani’s The Good Left Undone
…by sharing Domenica’s untold history with her own 20-something granddaughter, Anina. “When a housewife grows old, her final task is to imagine what will endure of her life’s work after…
A Blue Grass Boy’s memoir of life on the road with the great Bill Monroe
…it until he mentioned it, but I could see it in pictures. The lack of communication in the band seems almost comical, from a reader’s remove — Hembree often didn’t…
