After ten years of anticipation, Dzanc is thrilled to be publishing William Gay’s posthumous Southern Gothic masterpiece, The Lost Country, which tells the story of Billy Edgewater, a drifter and a harbinger of bad luck, who navigates the rural Tennessee back roads - rife with bootleggers, vagrants, rabblerousers, and scoundrels of all varieties - as he makes his slow way home.
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This month, as part of its ongoing series honoring independent bookstores, Dzanc focused on Books and Mortar, a living, breathing, fiercely independent store devoted to filling the indie bookstore niche in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Click below for an interview with Christopher Roe, one of the store's founders.
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Sheila, a thirty-something adrift in a web of her own bad decisions, finds her life turned upside down when her grandmother Rosamond dies, leaving her a shoebox of old love letters penned by someone other than Sheila's grandfather. The letters spark a friendship with twelve-year-old Torrey, her neighbor, and threaten to unravel the walls Sheila has built to keep the world at bay.
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Located in Denham Springs, Louisiana, Cavalier House Books focuses on investing in books that exemplify local culture and allow for freedom of expression and thought.
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Animals Eat Each Other has been featured on Publishers Weekly and The Masters Review, and will be The Nervous Breakdown's book club selection for April. Read a short excerpt here.
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Dzanc Books is pleased to announce its 2018 prizes and contest. This will mark the third year for the Prize for Fiction, which awards a $5,000 advance to the winning novel. In addition to the annual Short Story Collection Prize, this year sees the return of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize, honoring innovative and intelligent nonfiction writing in a variety of forms.
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Meet Mason Hues, a.k.a. the last remaining member of the The Survivors, a.k.a. Thirty-Seven. Read the first chapter of Peter Stenson's Thirty-Seven, available February 13.
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