A review of the latest William Gay collection by Wayne Catan, of Chapter 16, a community of Tennessee writers, readers, and passerby, from June 27, 2022.
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Stories from the Attic Now Available from Dzanc Books.
The final book from the William Gay Archive has been released. What began as This Ride Ain’t Over Yet, an early attempt at collecting posthumous short works, Stories from the Attic contains previously unpublished short stories, memoirs, and fragments. The book includes a preface by J.M. White, and concludes with a question and answer with the team of editors that have worked on the publication.
From Dzanc Books:
“From a celebrated master of the Southern Gothic comes a last collection of hard-hitting short fiction, his final posthumous work.
Beloved for his novels Twilight, The Long Home, and The Lost Country and his groundbreaking collection I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down, William Gay returns with one final posthumous collection of short stories, adapted from the archive found after his death in February 2012. In addition to previously unpublished short stories, Stories from the Attic includes fragments from two of the unpublished novels that were works in progress at the time of his death.
Marked by his signature skill and bare-knuckled insight, this collection is a must-read for William Gay devotees and fans of Southern short fiction.”
$26.95
Publication Date: July 17, 2022
Hardcover: 348 pages
ISBN: 9781950539451