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David Wesley Williams
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Maysville, Ky., The United States
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Faulkner and Welty. Blues and jazz. Bourbon and coffee. Memphis and th
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New novel coming in 2028: DIRT, HOME, BROKEN THINGS from Dreamfield Press
My fifth novel, DIRT, HOME, BROKEN THINGS, will be published in 2028 by Dreamfield Press. It’s my greyhound novel, set around the (now closed) dog track in West Memphis, Arkansas, as well as in Memphis and New Orleans.
I call it a novel about “the grace of greyhounds in that grittiest of places — the dog track — and the stumblefoot nature of man.” My new friends at Dreamfield say:
DIRT, HOME, B
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Long Gone Daddies
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Memphis Noir (Akashic Noir)
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Forty Stories
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Everybody Knows
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Come Again No More
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I'll Take You There
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Come Again No More
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The Coldwater Girl
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The Coldwater Girl
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David’s Recent Updates
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| THE VOLCANO KEEPER (Regal House Publishing) is a fable of believing. It’s a short work — a novella, 125 or so pages — that lingers in moments that feel real as life. The opening scene in which the boy, Charlie, shares a watermelon with his grandfathe ...more | |
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| Joseph Coulson has done a remarkable thing with THE PRINCE OF MEMPHIS (Dreamfield Press), his novel about the unacknowledged son of Elvis: He’s given us a serious book about the King. Set partly in Memphis, Coulson also manages to mix the real and su ...more | |
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| When Gerry Wilson drops you into a story, brace yourself. STORM WARNING, her collection of linked tales set around the fictional Yemassee Island, is about harsh weather and more human storms. Relationships splinter. Familial bonds fray. This is not e ...more | |
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| Near as I can tell after reading several of his books, Scott Gould is a natural storyteller. “Beneath a Fallen Sky” must be his best. It’s the story of a small Alabama town in 1910, bracing for Halley’s Comet — or the world’s end, come to that. But e ...more | |
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| “Memphis Movie Two,” the latest novel from Corey Mesler, is a sequel, but you don’t have to have read 2015’s “Memphis Movie.” You should, though. You should hie yourself to Burke's Book Store (or their website, if you’re not blessed to live in Memphi ...more | |
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“And then we had the wake. It was lovely with tears and laughter, roar and uproar. Nobody died. Well, only a little. We all died a little. But death mostly let us be. Death seemed to think there was, for us, a fate worse than it. Which left us alive in the end, and so very, very drunk.”
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“Good puzzle would be cross Memphis without passing a barbecue joint.”
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“The sun played children’s games with the clouds, but the clouds grew tired of such trifling and turned dark.
Two days out of Memphis, a sort of desperation set in aboard the Clementine. Nerves were frayed from the long journey west and patience was as short as the supply of whiskey—a cross look could get you a poke in the eye, a sarcastic remark might prompt a pot shot from one of the cheap pistols that suddenly proliferated on board. Children carried them, even. The snotnoses—armed!”
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Two days out of Memphis, a sort of desperation set in aboard the Clementine. Nerves were frayed from the long journey west and patience was as short as the supply of whiskey—a cross look could get you a poke in the eye, a sarcastic remark might prompt a pot shot from one of the cheap pistols that suddenly proliferated on board. Children carried them, even. The snotnoses—armed!”
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“He tried the crank radio, a pirate station out of Memphis. Static and guitar scratch, the straggling notes of a song about home.”
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“Some nights, we have the road to ourselves and the radio sings only for us. We play our shows and tear-ass out. Tonight, it was this little dive bar in a town we took to calling East Motherless. But we play, no matter. We rock and then we roll. The soundcheck and the fury, the power chord and the glory. Then we load our gear into a muddy-brown Merc with a little trailer behind, and we’re off. Slinging gravel, filling sky with road.”
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