Thacker Mountain Radio will be at the Lyric as part of the Oxford Conference for the Book
Ron Rash’s new collection of short stories, set in the Appalachia of today and as far back as the Civil War, Nothing Gold Can Stay
(Ecco, hd. 24.99), is a priceless collection that will haunt readers
long after the book is closed. Rash, the prolific and talented author
of short stories, poetry and novels, including last year’s bestseller
The Cove, has a gift for evoking a place, a people and their harsh and
difficult lives and finding the unsentimental beauty there. CFR
Jamie Quatro’s linked short stories in I Want to Show You More,
the author’s first book, are of lives that are slightly off kilter, the
cracks beginning to appear in the calm surfaces concealing
turmoil--family, children, death, infidelity, faith. They are scary, and
horrifying and quirkily funny. Advance praise from authors like Jill
McCorkle, Tom Franklin and Sven Birkerts continues to pour in and Tom
Bissell put it best--”Ladies and gentlemen, this is what short fiction
is for.” CFR
