Vol. 2, Issue 16
For THE LOST COUNTRY is one of those rare books that is both deeply literary and hugely entertaining. Featuring an ever-expanding cast of characters and the gorgeous landscape and intense poverty of the land along the Tennessee River in 1955, this novel offers stunning line by line writing, a terrific sense of event, and an accumulation of conflict that both finds its way to an essential violence and dissolves into a satisfying existentialism. – Fred Leebron on William Gay’s THE LOST COUNTRY
Malaisonaisse | Poetry
Malaisonaisse “Squash is an excellent conveyer of butter,” my friend said. The strangest things go in and come out when he opens his head, watching fat-spackled beef bricks and spit hit the coals as barbecue sauce drips from ribs and wings and fingers and...
The Lost Country | Book Review
The Lost CountryBy William GayISBN: 978-1-945814-52-5Dzanc Books, July 2018Hardcover: 368 pages, $26.95 William Gay’s posthumous novel, THE LOST COUNTRY, is an incredibly resonant and engaging story on many fronts: its path to publication, its constantly compelling...Follow Us
