"For THE LOST COUNTRY is one of those rare books that is both deeply literary and hugely entertaining. Featuring an ever-expanding cast of characters and the gorgeous landscape and intense poverty of the land along the Tennessee River in 1955, this novel offers stunning line by line writing, a terrific sense of event, and an accumulation of conflict that both finds its way to an essential violence and dissolves into a satisfying existentialism."
Fred Leebron on William Gay's THE LOST COUNTRY
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The Lost Country by William Gay
Review by Fred Leebron
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“The day after [William] died,” J.M. White writes in the novel’s afterword, “the publisher for THE LOST COUNTRY called to ask me to go…see if I could retrieve the manuscript.” This was a manuscript White had been hearing about for thirty years, since Gay had started writing it, and he was eager to find it. He tried calling the Gay family first, but nobody answered. Then Gay’s son, William Junior, called and “said he had a tub full of notebooks he wanted me to help go through.”
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“Malaisonaisse”
Poetry by Alex Pickens
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arteries be damned, / smear a nice veneer of the salty plaster of Paris, / Texas.
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"The Same River Twice"
Literary Comic by Dave Sims
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The children still utter their cries of hunger and despair, so who can blame us for trying to return to a time when they were round and full and sleeping silent?
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The New Southern Fugitives seeks previously unpublished writing and art. We pay contributors:
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$40 per poem
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