This gonzo-style metamemoir follows Chuck Kinder on a wild tour of the back roads of his home state of West Virginia, where he encounters Mountain State legends like Sid Hatfield, Dagmar, Robert C. By
First published in 1973, this debut novel is the deeply moving coming-of-age story of Speer Whitfield, whose recollection of his upbringing and his large, remarkable, and often peculiar family evokes
Poetry. IMAGINATION MOTEL contains the secret meaning of movies, mostly old and in black & white, as watched on snowy, late-night television in cheap motel rooms of longing, desire, and flight
Fiction. Jimbo Stark, teenage soldier of fortune, loves, fights, drinks, mopes, and steals his way through this brilliant novel of the late 1950s. His America glows with an almost romantic light—it is
Chronicles the misadventures of promising writers Ralph Crawford and Jim Stark and their wives, in a story of friendship, betrayal, and the ups and downs of the writer's life.