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On the desk and nightstand: Ron Rash’s collection Something Rich and Strange, Amy Tan’s The Backyard Birdwatching Chronicles, James Agee’s The Morning Watch, Lauren Groff’s The Vaster Wilds, lots and lots of undergrad essays. I never forget that the early writings of Agee and Graff once sat in another teacher’s stack of essays.
I am forever affected by the prose of Breece D’J Pancake, William Gay, Harry Crews, Rick Bragg, Dorothy Allison Larry Brown. Robert Penn Warren, Steinbeck, Faulkner. Hell, throw Merle Haggard, Hank Williams Sr., Brad Roberts, and Slaid Cleaves in, too.
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