Stories From The Blue Moon Cafe IV

Proving that the waters of Southern talent run deep and traditions are meant to be both honored and stood on their ear, the third volume of Stories from the Blue Moon Caf? IV presents the most talented practitioners of Southern writing. This year’s anthology includes writing from Rick Bragg, William Gay, and Suzanne Hudson amongst others. Readers need not ever have set a foot south of the Mason-Dixon Line to appreciate the bold, the brash, the horrifying and the humorous short stories, essays, poems, and even songs from the South’s preeminent authors and its strongest new voices gathered together for a feast in Stories from the Blue Moon Caf? IV. Fans of Southern literature cannot miss this

Includes:

Our Uncle Willem Stanfield by Howard Bahr
The good neighbors by John Boyer
Dear friend by Rick Bragg
Those summer Sundays by Andrea Hollander Budy
An explanation by Andrea Hollander Budy
In the thirteenth year of the jonquil by David E. Campbell
Joe and Sheila by Marshall Chapman
Like kudzu by Ryan Clark
Pulp fishin’ by Jim Dees
Taking off from Welty by Ellen Douglas
Spleen by Ann Fisher-Wirth
Where, beneath the magnolia by Ann Fisher-Wirth
Strawberry fizzle by Kristin Grant
When the fish don’t bite by Jason Headley
The beauty seat by Ingrid Hill
The thing with feathers by Suzanne Hudson
Cicadas by Cecilia Johnson
In the tall grass by Bret Anthony Johnston
The midwife’s son by Suzanne Kingsbury
Ghost dance by Chip Livingston
Lost, not lost by Humphreys McGee
Jimmy the playwright began to slur by Jeff McNeil
Talk by Diane McWhorter
Broad and Jackson by Carol Megathlin
Rehab by Janet Nodar
Chicken bone man by Anna Olswanger
The cryptograph by Nic Pizzolatto
Chitlins by Robert St. John
The turkey hunt by Philip Shirley
Down there on a visit by Charles Simic
Shadow and Solomon by Mac Walcott
A full boat by Daniel Wallace
The Freddies by M.O. Walsh
A map of the forest by Marly Youmans