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Collected essays from beloved New York Times best-selling author Ron Rash, marking the first book about his life as a writer.
Award-winning novelist and poet Ron Rash shares both previously published and new material in this exciting new collection, including a never-before-published interview with Rash about his recent work. In the first thirteen essays, Rash offers insights into his own writing process, practice, and influences. He also explores his admiration and analysis of both classic and contemporary writers, including William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, Eudora Welty, William Gay, Daniel Woodrell, Pat Conroy, Colum McCann, and others. The collection’s final section includes a dozen pieces illustrating his deep belief in the importance of place in his writing and in his life. Fans and students of Rash—called “one of the great American authors at work today” by The New York Times—will find this collection a rich and essential addition to their libraries.
Ron Rash is the author of the PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestselling novel Serena, in addition to the critically acclaimed novels The Caretaker, The Risen, Above the Waterfall, The Cove, One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River, and The World Made Straight; five collections of poems; and seven collections of stories, among them Burning Bright, which won the 2010 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, Nothing Gold Can Stay, a New York Times bestseller, Chemistry and Other Stories, which was a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award, and In the Valley. Three times the recipient of the O. Henry Prize, his books have been translated into seventeen languages. He teaches at Western Carolina University.
