Marlin Barton If readers still care about great Southern fiction, and I hope they do, they should be reading Marlin Barton. - Brad Watson, Author of Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives and Miss Jane arrow_back arrow_forward Newest Book Available - Pasture Art Marlin Barton's Alabama is dangerous as a rattlesnake, dark as a mine, and deep as a well. Electrifying. Cary Holladay, Author of Horse People: Stories arrow_back arrow_forward Newest Book Available - Pasture Art A captivating third fiction collection, reminiscent of Larry Brown’s gritty Southern storytelling. Publishers Weekly arrow_back arrow_forward Latest Book Release PASTURE ART The past and present are joined here in stories, all set in nearby towns in the Alabama Black Belt, that demonstrate the never-ending struggle for understanding and connection. Bookshop
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Marlin Barton is the first recipient of the Capote Prize for short fiction. He teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He also teaches creative writing in a program for juvenile offenders called Writing Our Stories, created by the Alabama Writers’ Forum.

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A captivating third fiction collection…

…reminiscent of Larry Brown’s gritty Southern storytelling.

This fine assembly of seven short stories and one novella from Barton is set in his native state of Alabama. The well-plotted novella, “Playing War,” has vivid characters including Carrie Fuller, a dental assistant in her 40s, who clashes with her brusque husband, Foster. A lifelong deer hunter, he heads a gang of fellow enthusiasts, including his employee Dale Tilghman. He confides in Carrie’s father, an arthritic retiree, how the hunting accident that killed his older brother, Bruce, came while the bored hunters played “a game of war.” Adding to the tension, Bruce was Carrie’s lover while she and Foster dated. After her father repeats the tale to her, Carrie suspects Foster murdered Bruce in retaliation. Carrie’s investigation revs up the domestic strife, but the author smartly keeps things restrained… read more…

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These are savage, haunting stories of devastating rivalry and secret love

Marlin Barton’s Alabama is dangerous as a rattlesnake, dark as a mine, and deep as a well. Electrifying.

Cary Holladay, Author of Horse People: Stories

The stories in Pasture Art rank with those masters of the form

Marlin Barton writes about people in small town Alabama with an unassuming artistry that makes them as real and memorable as the Pennsylvanians of Updike and O’Hara, and the Russians of Chekov.

Dan Wakefield, Author of Going All the Way and New York in the Fifties

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June 28th, 2020|

A few years ago, on my way home after giving a reading at Murray State University, at the invitation of writers and friends Allen Wier and Dale Ray Phillips, I stopped in Guthrie, Kentucky, for some lunch. If I spot a Cracker Barrel, it's hard for me not to stop. (And no, Cracker Barrel isn't paying me to say that. I'm just offering a little free advertising because of my generous nature.) Allen knew I'd be going through Guthrie, and he'd reminded me that Robert Penn Warren was from there, and added that the home of his birth was open for tours. So after finishing my meal, I asked my waiter if he knew where Robert Penn Warren's house was. He didn't, and, as you might be guessing right about now, he didn't know who Penn Warren was. And that was okay. Not everyone's a reader, and it's not all that unusual for a native of a place to not know some famous person is from there. It's not like Penn Warren had been on America's Got [...]

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