More About Marlin Barton
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.
What The Critics Are Saying About Pasture Art
TESTIMONIALS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY
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.
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.
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Meet & Greet With Bart
Join me at the High Mark Bookstore in Auburn, Al on 28 October...
Open Book: Dialogues
Join me at the New Star Bookstore in Opp, Al on 8 October...
Jasper Bookstore Opening
Let's get together at the grand opening of Jasper's new bookstore on August 7th. I'll be sharing some thoughts on my topics for my next story...
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Mark Twain, Elvis Presley, Charles F. Price, and the Nu Wray Inn
And I should add Super Man and Thomas Wolfe to that list. If my late friend Charles were still alive, he'd be laughing so hard right now at the fact that I've placed him amongst such illustrious company. His laugh was always hardy and infectious, so downright celebratory. I bet those of you who knew him can hear him now, as can I. And you can probably see him too, with his head thrown back, the wide brim of his lightly colored felt hat framing his face, his long braid of hair lying across a shoulder that's shaking with his laughter. So who was (how I hate to use the past tense here) Charles Price, and how does he belong on my somewhat odd list? First and foremost, Charles was a novelist and historian from the mountains of Western North Carolina, who worked first as a journalist in the 1960s and later as a lobbyist in Washington, D.C., but he returned to his home mountains at age 57, specifically to Burnsville, North Carolina, to settle into what [...]