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Wes Blake

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in Lexington. KY, The United States

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Wes Blake is the author of Pineville Trace--Publishers Weekly Booklife Editor's Pick, winner of the Etchings Press Novella Prize, finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Award for First Novel, the Feathered Quill Book Award for Debut Author, and featured on Deep South Magazine’s Reading List--from Etchings Press, Univ. of Indianapolis. Pulitzer Prize Finalist author Lee Martin called him a “writer to watch." His work has appeared in Electric Literature, Los Angeles Review, storySouth, and Louisiana Literature Journal, among others, and he holds an MFA from the Bluegrass Writers Studio. Wes lives in Nonesuch, Kentucky with his wife and cats, where they’ve planted over 100 trees. Learn more at wesblake.com and Instagram (@wesblake_). ...more

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EDITOR'S PICK: Publishers Weekly BookLife named Pineville Trace an Editor's Pick!

So happy to share that Publishers Weekly #BookLife just named PINEVILLE TRACE an Editor’s Pick! They wrote such an insightful review, too. The review will appear in the Oct. 27 print edition of Publishers Weekly. I’m proud of this little book and thankful to Etchings Press and every person who’s helped support it along the way. Read the review, here: https://booklife.com/category/fiction...

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Returning to Earth

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I Have Not Considered Consequences: Short Stories

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“You may my glories and my state depose,
But not my griefs; still am I king of those.”
― William Shakespeare, Richard II

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“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
― Joseph Addison

tags: mind, reading

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“If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: misattributed, misattributed-lao-tzu

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“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: nature

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“He was alone. He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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