✦ LIBER ✦

Scribblers: Stalking the Authors of Appalachia

✍ Scribed by Kirk, Stephen

Book ID: 107898372
Publisher: John F. Blair, Publisher
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Weight: 189 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 0895873079

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

In the small mountain city of Asheville, North Carolina, Thomas Wolfe lies at eternal rest just a few steps from William Sydney Porter, better known as O. Henry. Those graves are a short hop from the great inn where F. Scott Fitzgerald tried to dictate his writing from a body cast, and a half-hour's drive from the estate where the aged Carl Sandburg wrote deep into the night. The city's ties to the world of letters are equally strong today. Gail Godwin and Charles Frazier were schooled in Asheville, for example, and Robert Morgan and Fred Chappell in the immediate area. Stephen Kirk, author of Scribblers, is an editor and would-be literary gadfly. Taking Asheville as his canvas, he learns stories of the area's legendary authors and interviews some of its contemporary greats. Meanwhile, he also seeks out writers living in the shadows of the famous. He meets genre authors who make their living penning romances, Westerns, and mysteries. He immerses himself in the culture of...

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Arks of Octava: The Scribbler Guardian

✍ Bane, Lucian 📂 Fiction 📅 2015 🌐 English ⚖ 118 KB

Jeramiah Poe isn’t just any character in the Realm of Fiction; he is Muse Master—Destiny Diviner—Mysterious Miskriat. Being of neither the Traditional Genre Provinces nor Independent, Poe enjoys an eternal lease on life, so long as his Scribbler keeps him out of publication. Poe meets Kane, a sev

The Queen of Appalachia

✍ Joe H. (joseph H.), . Borders 📂 Fiction 📅 1901 🏛 Ulan Press 🌐 English ⚖ 158 KB

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-opt

Ramp Hollow the ordeal of Appalachia

✍ Steven Stoll 📂 Fiction 📅 2017 🏛 Farrar, Straus and Giroux 🌐 en-US ⚖ 2 MB 👁 1 views

**How the United States underdeveloped Appalachia** Appalachia--among the most storied and yet least understood regions in America--has long been associated with poverty and backwardness. But how did this image arise and what exactly does it mean? In _Ramp Hollow_ , Steven Stoll launches an origina

The Evolution of Stalking

✍ Joshua D. Duntley; David M. Buss 📂 Article 📅 2010 🏛 Springer US 🌐 English ⚖ 327 KB

Stalking the Angel

✍ Robert Crais 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Lt 🌐 English ⚖ 148 KB 👁 3 views

Bradley Warren had lost something very valuable, something that belonged to someone else: a rare thirteenth-century Japanese manuscript called the Hagakure. Everything PI Elvis Cole knew about Japanese culture he'd learned from reading SHOGUN, but he knew a lot of crooks - and what he didn't know, h

Uneven Ground: Appalachia Since 1945

✍ Eller, Ronald D 📂 Fiction 📅 2008 🏛 The University Press of Kentucky 🌐 English ⚖ 3 MB

Appalachia has played a complex and often contradictory role in the unfolding of American history. Created by urban journalists in the years following the Civil War, the idea of Appalachia provided a counterpoint to emerging definitions of progress. Early-twentieth-century critics of modernity saw t