Grit Lit: A Rough South Reader (Non Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1611170834 ISBN 13: 9781611170832

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press, 2012

Synopsis

Drawing on storytelling traditions as old as southern literature itself, Grit Lit is the first anthology devoted to contemporary writing about the Rough South. From literary legends to emerging voices, the acclaimed writers featured in this collection view their hardscrabble South without romanticism or false nostalgia, not through moonlight and magnolia but moonshine and Marlboros.

This is the dirty South as captured by those rooted in its land yet able to share its stories with candor and courage. Grit Lit guides readers through tales both tall and true, intoxicating stories of loss, violence, failure, feuds, family, and―above all―survival against the odds. Raw and raucous, Grit Lit gathers some of the most provocative writing to come out of the South in the last thirty years. With a preface by Edgar Award-winning author Tom Franklin and Brian Carpenter's introduction to the genre's origins and influences, this bold anthology lays bare the Rough South in all its battered glory and dares readers not to stare in awe.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

An anthology of memoirs and fiction by some of the most acclaimed writers in contemporary Southern literature

About the Author:

A graduate of Centre College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Brian Carpenter is a freelance writer and editor. His articles on the South have appeared in Southern Cultures, Southern Literary Journal, Southern Review, The Companion to Southern Literature, and the anthology Cornbread Nation 1: The Best Southern Food Writing.

A native of Dickinson, Alabama, Tom Franklin is the Edgar Award-winning author of Poachers, Hell at the Breech, Smonk, and the New York Times best seller Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter. Franklin teaches creative writing at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1611170834
• ISBN 13: 9781611170832
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 358
• Editor: Carpenter Brian, Franklin Tom