Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe 3 (Stories from the Blue Moon

Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe 3 (Stories from the Blue Moon Café)

Proving that the waters of Southern talent run deep and that traditions are meant to be both honored and stood on their ear, the third volume of Stories from the Blue Moon CafÃ© presents the most talented practitioners of Southern writing.

Readers need not ever have set foot south of the Mason-Dixon Line to appreciate the bold, the brash, the horrifying, and the humorous short stories, essays, poems, and even songs from the Southâ€™s preeminent authors and its strongest new voices, gathered together for a feast in Stories from the Blue Moon CafÃ© III.

About the Editor:
Sonny Brewer lives in Fairhope, Alabama. Editing, publishing, and writing have been the consistent threads in a tapestry of work that has included everything from radar and electronics repair to deck-handing on a tugboat, from magazine editing to teaching high school English, from freelance writing for lawyers and corporations to finding and publishing new writers. His debut novel, The Poet of Tolstoy Park, was released in 2005; and was followed by A Sound Like Thunder; Cormac: the Tale of a Dog Gone Missing; and The Widow and the Tree. In 2009 he edited Don't Quit Your Day Job, a collection of autobiographical essays by authors who did!

â€œLike the two previous editions in the series, this anthology collects a delightful mix of well-known and unheralded southern fiction writers.â€
â€“ Booklist

â€œAnyone who doubts that Southern literature is alive and well should take the time to read two fine new anthologies of the regionâ€™s best up-and-coming writers, Stories From the Blue Moon CafÃ© III and The Alumni Grillâ€¦Middling (and most) anthologies will mix a few gems in with a lot of chum, hoping that readers are willing to suffer through to find something they really like. Not so with these booksâ€¦a consistently strong, yet consistently diverse, collection of writers from across the South.â€
Nashville Scene

â€œNew readers will find much to love while old readers will be pleased yet again.â€
Southern Scribe

â€œReaders can choose a level of literary elegance and edginess that best suits themâ€¦a raw power thatâ€™s off the charts.â€
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

â€œThese stories are rooted. They are of a place but are more than just the setting. They are full of the sights and sounds of the region, but the motivations and actions of the characters are universalâ€¦ It doesn't get much better than that.â€
The Advocate

â€œâ€¦he, and they, have done it againâ€¦â€
Jackson Free Press

â€œSonny Brewer gives readers a wide variety of style and substance in his third volume of Stories from the Blue Moon CafÃ©. Collectively, these books will insure Brewer a place in the history of Southern Lit.â€
Planet Weekly

â€œâ€¦many of the authors are virtually unheard of, yet all write with amazing depth and imageryâ€¦ a unique, unforgettable read.â€
Round Table Reviews
â€œWhen the first edition came out in 2002, I wrote that it was â€˜the greatest collection of Southern writers since Willie Morris' funeral,â€™ and each edition has only improved. This third volume sets a new standard.â€
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal

â€œâ€¦the most attractive aspect of these stories is that each author speaks his truth unflinchingly, be it pleasant or uglyâ€¦ In a paean to humanity at its best and worst with a Southern twist, Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe III evokes the bittersweet angst of a way of life so deeply embedded that its memory shrouds the future still.â€
CurledUp.com

â€œWho knew reading and writing could be so thrillingâ€¦â€
Clarion Ledger
â€œâ€¦these books (Stories from the Blue Moon CafÃ© III and The Alumni Grill) represent an extraordinary fecundity that future literary scholars will no doubt marvel over.â€
â€“ Mobile Register
â€œSonny Brewer brings together the best of an â€˜annual literary slugfestâ€™â€¦luckily for readers, these blue moons are coming around pretty often.â€
â€“ Times Picayune
Country USA
Manufacturer MP Publishing Limited
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2009-02-16
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	MP Publishing Limited
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2009-02-16
Format	Kindle eBook

Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe 3 (Stories from the Blue Moon Café)

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