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May 7, 2024 · The Serena author’s new novel set in Appalachia captures the torturous nature of the human condition. Ron Rash’s new novel, Above the Waterfall, tells the story of Les, the morally ambiguous sheriff of an Appalachian North Carolina town with both distinct beauty in nature and decay brought about by the ravages of crystal meth. With his ...
May 13, 2024 · Ron Rash's 2023 novel "The Caretaker" affirms that he's one of America's best writers. Returning to the author's familiar Appalachian Mountain territory of western North Carolina, Rash's 20th book and first novel in 10 years fully displays his narrative power. Set in 1951 with the backdrop of the Korean War, "The Caretaker" tells a compelling story of family tragedy, cruelty toward the ...
May 11, 2024 · Smith reviews Rash. Saturday Review: “And We Are Here, Right Here” a review by Jimmy Dean Smith in NCLR Online Spring 2024 of Ron Rash’s novel The Caretaker (2023) Rash, no stranger to reviews in NCLR, is this time included in our feature section on “Disability in NC Literature” for many examples: “In fact, auguring tragedy perhaps ...
May 17, 2024 · The Ron Rash Reader is a collection of essential works that covers the full range of Rash's career to date, from his first published collection of stories, The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth and Other Stories from Cliffside, North Carolina (1994), to Nothing Gold Can Stay: Stories (2012) and includes previously unpublished material as well ...
May 7, 2024 · Into ‘The Gorge’ With David Armand. The Louisiana writer uses a real-life cave and 1980 murder case to set the scene in his latest literary thriller. David Armand has been hard at work putting pen to paper. With two books out this fall and a memoir forthcoming in the spring, he’s anticipating the next couple months to be a rollercoaster ...
May 19, 2024 · – Ron Rash, New York Times bestselling author of Serena Set in the bruised, mined, and timbered hills of Appalachia in western Pennsylvania, Sidle Creek is a tender, truthful exploration of a small town and the people who live there, told by a brilliant new voice in fiction.
May 7, 2024 · Fellow writers like Anne Rivers Siddons, Mark Childress, Rick Bragg, Mary Alice Monroe, Ron Rash, Bren McClain and Patti Callahan Henry share their own stories of Conroy in Our Prince of Scribes. Below is an excerpt from the book written by Henry, author of the forthcoming Becoming Mrs. Lewis , who says she first knew Conroy as a reader and ...
