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Best of LSU Fiction Nolde Alexius

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257). Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Preface / Judy Kahn -- Introduction / James Wilcox -- Blackberry Winter / Robert Penn Warren -- The Gift of the Prodigal / Peter Taylor -- The Interior Castle / Jean Stafford -- Sky Watch / Charles East -- A Part in Pirandello / David Madden -- Things About to Disappear / Allen Wier -- E-Z Boy War from Little Altars Everywhere / Rebecca Wells -- Spats / Valerie Martin -- Young Nuclear Physicist / Walker Percy -- The Perfect Mousse Ducktail / James Gordon Bennett -- Famous Days from Tupelo Nights / John Ed Bradley -- After the River / Tim Parrish -- Gauguin / Moira Crone -- In Praise of Goth Beauticians; Young Werther at Decadence 2006; Dead People in England / Andrei Codrescu -- The Amish Farmer / Vance Bourjaily -- Katherine's Elegy / Laurie Lynn Drummond -- Flood Festival from Bibliophilia / Michael Griffith -- The West Texas Sprouting of Loman Happenstance / Matt Clark -- from The Effigy / Olympia Vernon -- Camping Out / James Wilcox -- Bibliography -- Permissions. Biographical Note: Judy Kahn received her BA and MA in English from Louisiana State University before beginning her long teaching career in the LSU English department. She retired in 2005 and continues to play an active role in the LSU literary community. Publisher Marketing: Best of LSU Fiction is a long-overdue collection of the great fiction writers who have been associated with Louisiana State University. Beginning with three-time Pulitzer Prize--winner Robert Penn Warren, this anthology records the journey of LSU's prestigious literary tradition. The twenty writers collected in this volume share the LSU experience yet explore the craft of fiction with diverse and unique world views: John Ed Bradley writes of a failed LSU football hero, James Wilcox of the quirky interactions of a dysfunctional family on a camping trip, Moira Crone of a northerner's firsthand experience of a Louisiana hurricane, and Rebecca Wells of an anti-war cotton grower in the deep South. Whether you are rediscovering the work of literary legends Robert Penn Warren, Walker Percy, Jean Stafford, Peter Taylor, and Charles East or reading contemporary writers like David Madden, James Gordon Bennett, Valerie Martin, Andrei Codrescu, Michael Griffith, and Olympia Vernon, each story will deepen your appreciation of the talent LSU has produced and supported.