Comments on: Listen Up: Help Me Give Away Some Books

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:18:00 +0000

How ’bout Joe Creason?

By: XYZ

XYZ — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:32:28 +0000

“Creeker: A Woman’s Journey” by Linda Scott DeRosier… autobiography, an account of growing up in Martin County…

By: DMA

DMA — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:24:46 +0000

I’ll put in a personal plug for my Dad’s book —”Peril, Kentucky”– novel about an out-of-state English professor living in Eastern Kentucky. Email him or visit his website, I’m sure he’ll be happy to donate a few or sell at reduced price:

http://www.josephganthony.com/
http://www.josephganthony.com/books#Peril, Kentucky

By: DMA

DMA — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:22:41 +0000

Also Jake — hope you are talking to Frank X Walker and other Afrilachian Poets – Kelly Norman Ellis, Chrystal Wilkinson — they are all Kentucky writers and have books out.

By: DMA

DMA — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:21:18 +0000

Anything by George Ella Lyon.
Please oh PLEASE give away copies of Gurney Norman’s KINFOLKS: The WILGUS STORIES. It might be hard to find but it is set in eastern kentucky and absolutely beautiful, funny, heartbreaking.

By: PT

PT — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:37:23 +0000

A Bellsong for Sarah Raines by Bettie Waddell Cannon. I’m pretty sure Cannon is from Kentucky but can’t verify via google – if I remember right, she was my English teacher Ms. Nolan’s cousin.

By: John B

John B — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:46:01 +0000

I understand the focus on Kentucky books, but I would include some of the essential progressive library like The Jungle.

Stephen Zimmer is an up and coming fantasy author in Lexington.

By: Donna Mattingly

Donna Mattingly — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:09:07 +0000

Any Janice Holt Giles Kentucky historical novels would be great. I love Nelson Countian Fenton Johnson, and his “Crossing the River” might be appropriate. Johnson is at home in New Haven for a couple of months, caring for his aged mother btw. Louisville author Elizabeth Beattie and her two volumes of Conversations with Kentucky Writers, + Kentucky Authors by Sister Mary Carmel Browning (if you can find it). Lynwood Montell. Elizabeth Madox Roberts. Stones for Bread by Edwin Carlisle Litsey (Marion Countian and KY’s first poet laureate)sp?….

By: Davi

Davi — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:28:05 +0000

Bobbi Ann Mason definitely belongs in the collection.

By: jake

jake — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 12:35:46 +0000

CLRead: Definitely not after children’s authors.

We’re talking about adult authors. Books for kids that are about to be juniors in high school.