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Wes Blake

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Born

in Lexington. KY, The United States

Website

https://wesblake.com/

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Genre

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Southern Fiction

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Flannery O'Connor, Denis Johnson, Breece D'J Pancake, Louise Erdrich, ...more

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Wes Blake is the award-winning author of PINEVILLE TRACE (Etchings Press). His narrative nonfiction collection HAZELGREEN AND OTHER HAUNTS is forthcoming in 2027 from West Virginia University Press. Pulitzer Prize finalist author Lee Martin called him "a writer to watch" and Porchlight Southern Literature Journal named him one of "12 southern writers to read alongside the canon." His fiction and essays have appeared in Electric Literature, storySouth, and Untelling, among others. He is part of the visiting faculty at Eastern Kentucky University’s Bluegrass Writers Studio MFA in Creative Writing Program and lives in Kentucky. Learn more at wesblake.com and Instagram (@wesblake_). ...more

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Pineville Trace

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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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Leaving Atlanta

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Suttree

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Nothing Short Of: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story.org

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What an incredible book. The Colonel is unforgettable. I l loved seeing Bill Houston before his journey in ANGELS. I’m hard pressed to find a better opening and ending. The dialogue is flawless. And some of Denis’ strongest sentences.
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Wes’s Quotes

“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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