Recommended Reading 6/17/2016

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If you’re looking for something good to read this weekend, check out the Spring Issue of Bridge 8, co-guest edited by Tiffany Melanson and Agatha French.

If you’re a Big Bang Theory fan like I am, you’ll be interested to see that Kelly Marages wrote about Jim Parson’s home for the Wall Street Journal: http://www.wsj.com/articles/playing-by-house-rules-1463679803.

Barrett Warner has a fantastic piece of flash fiction, Three Men and One Dead Animal, in the new issue of Adroit Journal.  There’s also an audio file of Barrett reading.

 

Ed McClanahan and George Singleton

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Ed McClanahan and George Singleton - MHLF 2016

How awesome is it to be in the presence of two living legends at the same time?  Pretty awesome.  This year’s Mountain Heritage Literary Festival, held this past weekend at Lincoln Memorial University, featured an amazing staff including these two maniacs:  Ed McClanahan (author of THE NATURAL MAN, FAMOUS PEOPLE I HAVE KNOWN, A CONGRESS OF WONDERS, and MY VITA, IF YOU WILL among others) and George Singleton (author of THE HALF-MAMMALS OF DIXIE, BETWEEN WRECKS, CALLOUSTOWN and many others).   Ed was honored with this year’s Lee Smith Award to recognize his lifetime of good representation of Appalachia to the wider world.