Stories From the Blue Moon Cafe The American South in Stories, Essays, and Poetry

by Brewer, Sonny

• ISBN13: 9780451210425
• ISBN10: 0451210425
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-02
• Publisher: NAL Trade

Summary

Thirty of today's finest Southern writers serve up an intoxicating blend of stories, essays, and poetry. From the Civil War to the Cold War, country music to the blues, a mother and daughter to a boy and his dog, this is the South in all its sorrow-and all its splendor. Stories from the Blue Moon Caféis a delightful mixture of Southern spice: the good, the bad, the heart-breaking, and the hilarious. Featuring: Marlin Barton Rick Bragg Jill Conner Browne C. Terry Cline, Jr. Pat Conroy Tom Corcoran Beth Ann Fennelly Patricia Foster Tom Franklin William Gay Jim Gilbert W.E.B. Griffin Winston Groom Melinda Hayes Frank Turner Hollon Silas House Suzanne Hudson Douglas Kelley Tom Kelly Michael Knight Bev Marshall Barbara Robinette Moss Jennifer Paddock Judith Richards Richard Shakelford George Singleton Monroe Thompson Sidney Thompson Brad Watson Steve Yarbrough

Author Biography

Sonny Brewer owns Over the Transom Bookstore in Fairhope, Alabama. He was the editor of the city magazine in Mobile, Alabama, associate editor of an Alabama weekly newspaper, and a feature columnist. He edited an anthology of Fairhope writers and artists called Red Bluff Review, and is the author of a parable on aging cleverly disguised as a children's book, Rembrandt the Rocker, and a book of dimestore philosophy called A Yin for Change.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Final Spring	p. 5
The Blues Is Dying in the Place It Was Born	p. 17
Bitsy	p. 23
S. Trident	p. 27
My Heart's Content	p. 53
The Octopus Alibi	p. 59
I Would Like to Go Back as I Am, Now, to You as You Were, Then--	p. 73
The Girl from Soldier Creek	p. 75
Christmas 1893	p. 89
Come Home, Come Home, It's Suppertime	p. 95
Everything Must Go	p. 115
Going Back to the Bridge in Berlin	p. 131
Just a Little Closer to the Lord	p. 137
Love Like a Bullet	p. 145
Left Behind	p. 165
The Last Days	p. 169
The Fall of the Nixon Administration	p. 187
A Modern Tragedy	p. 203
Payback	p. 213
Killing Stonewall Jackson	p. 221
White Sugar and Red Clay	p. 231
Blackbird	p. 241
And When I Should Feel Something	p. 255
How This Song Ends	p. 269
From Tucson to Tucumcari, From Tehachapi to Tonopah	p. 273
Vietnam	p. 281
Jesus, Beans, and Butter Rum Lifesavers	p. 295
Arnold's Number	p. 303
The Dead Girl	p. 321
The Right Kind of Person	p. 333
Author Biographies	p. 347
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