pickLed to this author/book by the recent movie Devil all the Time. Enjoyed the writing and the often uncomfortable but always interesting short stories inspired by Knockemstiff, OH.
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pickLed to this author/book by the recent movie Devil all the Time. Enjoyed the writing and the often uncomfortable but always interesting short stories inspired by Knockemstiff, OH.
pickI've read some crazy, outsider, efftup fiction before, but this was some next-level shizzle. Poverty, despair, drugs, violence, incest, bigotry, drugs again, drive-ins, infidelity, murder and a lot more drugs. And it's funny. Dark, mean, bleak and funny. These connected short stories are not for everyone, but I ate them up like diner pie with extra cream.
Well, today‘s #riotgrams prompt is “books in nature”, however, it‘s pissing down rain here in Iowa City so here‘s me outside Prairie Lights looking at the books inside before going inside myself to introduce Donald Ray Pollock at his reading for the #iowacitybookfestival
Here is my #bookhaul from Left Bank & Subterranean Books. The Tallent & Pollock are both signed.
I spent #readathon day traveling the city for #Independentbookstoreday.I received a carabiner (fancy name for tag holder) and my first bookstore tag. Minimum purchase $25. Let's just say I exceeded that by..a bit 😛At each later stop,you pick up another tag for your carabiner(I left mine whole cuz I think they make nice bookmarks), no purchase necessary. Maybe not necessary but..who can resist?I picked up this book at store 3, Open Books. #CHIBD17
A collection of gritty short stories about the desperate no holds barred life of people in poverty ridden mid to late 20th century southern Ohio
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Collection of gritty short stories about the no holds barred life of poverty in mid to late 20th century southern Ohio
pickGreat collection of linked short stories set in a very poor town in Ohio. Very gritty, with a lot of disturbing subject matter, the stories are sometimes funny and sometimes just sad. I enjoyed this one a lot.
I'm four days away from my annual trip down to Portland to spend a couple days at Powell's. I need my yearly fix and can't wait!
Knockemstiff is a linked short story collection I picked up at Powell's last year and just getting to now. So far I'm loving it. Very disturbing, but great.
