Reviewed by Adam Van Winkle Old Country Fiddle is certainly an appropriate title for Heath Dollar’s new short story collection from Red Dirt Press. Though, those familiar with some of Dollar’s previous stories will recognize the setting, fictional Waylon County, out in the land of the accordion, Texas Hill Country. Those familiar with the Texas […]
Allen Mendenhall Interviews Amy Susan Wilson, Publisher of Red Dirt Press
October 17, 2019 by Leave a Comment
AM: Amy, thanks for doing this interview about Red Dirt Press. Congratulations, too, for reaching the six year mark. You focus on publishing poetry and prose that examines the complexities and diversities of the New South. You also have a focus on social justice issues that are global in nature yet connect to the New […]
Adam Van Winkle Interviews Southern Mystery Writer Maggie Toussaint
February 14, 2019 by 3 Comments
No genre has dominated writing, reading, television, movies, even our games, quite like the mystery. Since Poe, through Doyle, Hammett, and Chandler to Christie, Leonard, and Burke, the genre has its masters. Knowing the magnitude of the canon, I’d think it’d be intimidating as hell to try and stake out a place in the genre. […]
Adam Van Winkle
February 12, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Adam Van Winkle is the author of the novel, Abraham Anyhow, which was selected by Southern Literary Review as the June 2017 “Read of the Month.” The follow up novel, While They were in the Field, releases in 2019. His prose has appeared in Bull Men’s Fiction, Cheap POP!, Pithead Chapel, Steel Toe Review, Red […]
June Read of the Month: “Abraham Anyhow,” by Adam Van Winkle
June 1, 2017 by 1 Comment
Reviewed by William Bernhardt I am particular about how Oklahoma is portrayed in fiction. Perhaps I’m unduly defensive, but at this point, having written more than almost thirty novels set in Oklahoma, in a variety of time periods, I think I’ve earned the right. I chafe when I hear editors, upon hearing that the novel takes […]