Tag: West Virginia
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Inspiring a Story: A Personal Experience with Jesse Stuart
Glen Edward Taul “Today I have not written a story I planned to write. This has taken one of our last days in time allotted to us to live. But John Preston has been worth every minute of it.” Jesse Stuart[1] As I traveled across W-Hollow toward Stuart’s home, there was an air of…
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The Stories (and Life) of Breece D’J Pancake
Nathan Gower[1] Breece D’J Pancake was a West Virginian and a fiction writer, notably in that order. He wrote only twelve short stories – published posthumously as The Stories of Brecce D’J Pancake – in his brief twenty-six years on Earth, each of them populated with the piercing, beautiful, and often haunting characters of his…