Mojo Rising Vol. 2: Contemporary Writers - Softcover

Atkins, Joseph B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1941644899 ISBN 13: 9781941644898

Publisher: Sartoris Literary Group, 2017

Synopsis

Mojo Rising: Volume 2 - Contemporary Writers is a short story anthology that contains the work of some of the finest writers associated with the geographic region known as the Mojo Triangle (Mississippi, Memphis, New Orleans and Nashville). Included in this collection are stories written by New York Times bestselling author Ace Atkins, author of two dozen novels, including The Fallen; writer Sheree Renee Thomas is editor of the Dark Matter anthology, which was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; William Boyle, author of Gravesend and numerous short stories; author Julie Smith is the author of numerous novels, including P.I. On a Hot Tin Roof and Mean Woman Blues; Steven Barthelme is the author of two short story collections, Hush Hush and And He Tells the Little Horse the Whole Story (he lives in Hattiesburg, MS, where he is a professor at the University of Southern Mississippi); Maurice Carlos Ruffin is the author of a forthcoming novel to be published by One World/Random House, and the winner of the 2014 Iowa Review Award for fiction; former University of Mississippi journalism professor Jere Hoar is the author of a novel, The Hit, and a short story collection, Body Parts; Corey Mesler, who co-owns Burke’s Bookstore in Memphis, is the author of numerous poems, short stories and novels, including Memphis Movie; James L. Dickerson is the author of more than 30 books, including Mojo Triangle and Memphis Going Down; Margaret Skinner, author of Cold Eye: A Short Story Collection and two novels published by Algonquin Books, Old Jim Canaan and Molly Flanagan and the Holy Ghost ; and the editor of this book, Joseph B. Atkins, who maintains a day job as a journalism professor at the University of Mississippi; he is the author of a novel, Casey’s Last Chance.

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About the Author

Joseph B. Atkins, a journalism professor at the University of Mississippi, is a veteran journalist and former congressional correspondent. He has published short stories in various publications and his novella Crossed Roads was a finalist in the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Awards in New Orleans. In 2015, Sartoris Literary Group published his novel, Casey's Last Chance.

Review

Often an editor s idea of contemporary southern literature is rooted too deeply in setting and mood. The dozen stories collected in Mojo Rising: Contemporary Writers by Joseph B. Atkins offer a vibrant counterpoint. These eight men and four women take risks with voice, setting, point of view and genre and the payoffs for the reader are enjoyable and edifying. In Beg Borrow Steal, Maurice Carlos Ruffin expertly creates space for the reader to become the protagonist, who spends his time searching for some way other than his feet to move from one place to another. While Sheree Renee Thomas s charming Aunt Dissy s Policy Dream Book explores the difficult truth that you don t get what you want because you want it even with the help of palm readers and dreams. Margaret Skinner transforms our antiquated idea of kin into a nuanced understanding of the American Dream and in doing so, revitalizes two clichés. This collection proves that the link between southern writers is not regional storytelling, but fearless storytelling. --Courtney Miller Santo, English Department, University of Memphis, Director of River City Writers Series

As this book demonstrates, many houses in the South still have front porches, where the art of storytelling remains alive and well. --Robert W. Hamblin, Professor Emeritus of English and Founding Director, Center for Faulkner Studies, Southeast Missouri State University

No kudzu, no cat's claw, no sugar drawl: these stories showcase the gritty raw South of Flannery's freaks. A timeless classic, frozen in time. --Patty Friedmann, author of Secondhand Smoke and Too Jewish: The Next Generation

Edition details

• Publisher: Sartoris Literary Group
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1941644899
• ISBN 13: 9781941644898
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 220