Ron Rash

John Lane has long been recognized as one of the South's finest poets and memoirists. This debut establishes him as one of…

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“Maybe calling it being hitched ain’t the prettiest way to say you’re married, but it’s the truth to my mind and true…

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Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the…

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“Dead and still in the world was worse than dead and in the ground. Dead in the ground at least gave you…

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“We want what's in this world but we also want what ain't.”

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“The song was wistful as the ballads Slidell and the Clayton brothers played, except words weren't needed to feel the yearning. That…

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“What does eminent domain mean?” Stewart asked. “It means you’re shit out of luck,” Ross said.”

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“The world is ripe, and we'll pluck it like an apple from a tree.”

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Steve Yarbrough is a writer of many gifts, but what makes Safe from the Neighbors such a magnificent achievement is its moral…

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“The lift of her heart she'd felt on the outcrop she now felt again, and it wasn't just love. She'd felt love…

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“Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.”

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“Rachel kneeled beside Jacob. She took the child's hand and pressed it to the dirt. Her father had told Rachel that Harmons…

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Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place.

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I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems…

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The woman doesn't look up. It's as if she's deaf. Maybe she is. Maybe she's like the Cambodian women I've read about,…

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“We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times was till I left, but I guess that's…

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“You Men notice so little Pemberton, Physical strength is your genders sole advantage" - Serena”

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“Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second…

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I live in Cullowhee, North Carolina. That's where I teach, at Western Carolina University. That region is where my family has lived…

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What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... it's amazing how much you could…

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Sometimes I know what my characters are moving away from or toward; more often I just wait and see. For instance, though…

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She realized that being starved for words was the same as being starved for food, because both left a hollow place inside…

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A small profit is better than a big loss.

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“I don’t even have a choice. Rachel thought how that was pretty much true of everything now, that you got one choice…

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But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to…

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