Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe IV

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

Includes:

Our Uncle Willem Stanfield by Howard Bahr

The good neighbors by John Boyer

Dear friend by Rick Bragg

Those summer Sundays by Andrea Hollander Budy

An explanation by Andrea Hollander Budy

In the thirteenth year of the jonquil by David E. Campbell

Joe and Sheila by Marshall Chapman

Like kudzu by Ryan Clark

Pulp fishin' by Jim Dees

Taking off from Welty by Ellen Douglas

Spleen by Ann Fisher-Wirth

Where, beneath the magnolia by Ann Fisher-Wirth

Strawberry fizzle by Kristin Grant

When the fish don't bite by Jason Headley

The beauty seat by Ingrid Hill

The thing with feathers by Suzanne Hudson

Cicadas by Cecilia Johnson

In the tall grass by Bret Anthony Johnston

The midwife's son by Suzanne Kingsbury

Ghost dance by Chip Livingston

Lost, not lost by Humphreys McGee

Jimmy the playwright began to slur by Jeff McNeil

Talk by Diane McWhorter

Broad and Jackson by Carol Megathlin

Rehab by Janet Nodar

Chicken bone man by Anna Olswanger

The cryptograph by Nic Pizzolatto

Chitlins by Robert St. John

The turkey hunt by Philip Shirley

Down there on a visit by Charles Simic

Shadow and Solomon by Mac Walcott

A full boat by Daniel Wallace

The Freddies by M.O. Walsh

A map of the forest by Marly Youmans

• Author
• Sonny Brewer, Jim Dees, Ellen Douglas, Ann Fisher-wirth, Kristin Grant, Jason Headley, Ingrid Hill, Suzanne Hudson, Bret Anthony Johnston, Suzanne Kingsbury, Chip Livingston, Humphreys McGee, Jeff McNeil, Diane McWhorter, Carol Megathlin, Janet Nodar, Anna Olswanger, Nic Pizzolatto, Robert St. John, Philip Shirley, Howard Bahr, Charles Simic, Mac Walcott, M.O. Walsh, Marly Youmans, John Boyer, Rick Bragg, Andrea Hollander, David E. Campbell, Marshall Chapman, Ryan Clark, Daniel Wallace, Cecilia Johnson

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 311

• Series
• Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe

• Publisher
• MacAdam/Cage Publishing

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781596921429

• Release date
• 2005