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Tag Archives: Charles McNair

Straight from the Cuckoo’s Nest
Essays / Features

Straight from the Cuckoo’s Nest

Posted on April 25, 2014 by Juhi • 1 Comment

by Charles McNair

Every page and paragraph and sentence of this novel feels just this vivid to me, hypercharged with creative energy and vitality. The book splits the back of its spine with anger. It telescopes out its arms to capture Kesey’s outrage at the powers that be. Continue reading →

Back & Forth:  Reflections on One Year of BLOOM
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Back & Forth: Reflections on One Year of BLOOM

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Juhi • Leave a comment

by Sonya Chung

When I pause to look back (thank goodness for anniversaries to remind us) at the authors we’ve featured at Bloom this past year, I think of the inertia they all bucked, willfully and courageously. Continue reading →

BLOOMERS AT LARGE: “Compelling Variety”
Bloomers At Large / Features

BLOOMERS AT LARGE: “Compelling Variety”

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Juhi • Leave a comment

by Vicraj Gill

What takes over when you aren’t a prodigy? “[S]omething else,” says Catherine Tice—in her case, musicianship—and then only if you have “an essential psychological immunity to the dark side of self-criticism.” Continue reading →

Q & A With Charles McNair
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Q & A With Charles McNair

Posted on October 16, 2013 by editor • 1 Comment

When you talk of Southern literature, what do you mean? There are 10,000 Souths. Cracker South. Cajun South. Cowboy South. Souths in wiregrass, bluegrass, prairie grass, sawgrass. We’re as diverse as Europe here. Writers do their best, I think, to write about their own little postage stamps of experience. Continue reading →

Charles McNair: Southern Myths and Yankee Murder in the Strangely Wonderful World of Pickett’s Charge
Author Features / Features / Fiction

Charles McNair: Southern Myths and Yankee Murder in the Strangely Wonderful World of Pickett’s Charge

Posted on October 14, 2013 by Juhi • 1 Comment

by Kevin Hartnett

Pickett’s Charge is filled with phantasms, but it’s rooted in Alabama soil. Charles McNair, 59, grew up in Alabama, and has written just one previous novel, Land O’Goshen. Continue reading →

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