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Waiting at the Dead End Diner: Poems by Rebecca Schumejda A book of poems that reads like a novel.
"Order Up! Schumejda throws an apron at you & before you can even get it tied she pulls you into the elaborate world of the Dead End Diner. Through exquisite storytelling rich with magnificent metaphor & razor-sharp insight you will work with & wait on a brilliant cast of characters & like any job, you'll love some & hate some - you'll lose some & win some." ~Amanda Oaks, Wordsdance
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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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Story Hour & Other Stories by Robert Flanagan 10 Stories by this Award Winning Author
"In Story Hour, Robert Flanagan tells masterfully rendered, hard-edged tales of the tough lives of men and women struggling to get by on the edges of America's heartland. Not a word rings false in this unsparingly honest collection. These stories bring to mind those wonderful, spare Springsteen songs about characters who make the wrong decisions and pay the price." ~Ronald K. Fried, author of Corner Men
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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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Writing Work Writers on Working-Class Writing Eds. David Shevin, Larry Smith, Janet Zandy
Featuring Bruce Springsteen Interview and articles by Bob Fox, Curt Johnson, Helen Ruggieri, Scott Russell Sanders, Jean R. Trounstine, Edwina Pendarvis, Larry Smith, Wayne Rapp, Heidi Shayla and others
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No Pets: Stories by Jim Ray Daniels
Jim Daniels' No Pets bring us sad, acutely observed people who know in their bones that the American Dream does not apply to them." -John Sayles (Only a few left in stock....a working class classic)
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Working Hard for the Money America's Working Poor in Stories, Poems, and Photos Eds. Mary E. Weems & Larry Smith
30 writers and photographs help tell their story.
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On The Clock: Contemporary Short Stories of Work
A collection of stories from our top writers which confronts and reveals our working life today. Edited by Jeff Vande Zande and Josh Maday in the Working Lives Fiction Series from Bottom Dog Press. Authors include: Jim Daniels, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Daniel Orozco, Kennebrew Surant, Rick Attig, Lolita Hernandez, Michael Martone, Matthew Salesses, Matt Bell, M. Kaat Toy, Sean Lovelace, Billie Louise Jones, Lita Kurth, Anne Shewring, Dustin Hoffman, Tania Hershman, Nick Kocz, Michael Zadoorian, Steve Himmer, Pete Anderson, Pete Fromm. 188 pages
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