An astonishing, even shocking debut written with both humor and heart by, as John Casey puts it, “a natural-born writer who inhabits every one of his characters—the good, the bad, and those who swing back and forth.”Set in a bitterly benighted, mine-polluted corner of Virginia, Nitro Mountain follows a group of people bound together by alcohol, small-time crime and music. There’s Leon, a hapless bass player who can embroil himself in trouble just by gettin...

Dans une ancienne région minière des Appalaches ravagée par la pauvreté, l’ombre de Nitro Mountain s’étend sur la cohorte de laissés pour compte, junkies, piliers de comptoir, vauriens et marginaux sublimes qui y vivent. Jones, un musicien bluegrass qui se donne avec son groupe dans des bars glauques, prend sous son aile Leon, un jeune homme paumé qui ne se remet pas de sa rupture avec la séduisante, torturée et bouleversante Jennifer. Celle-ci a eu la mauvaise idée de tomber sous la coupe...

No conviene adentrarse mucho en Nitro Mountain, ni cogerle demasiado cariño a nada. La compañía minera lio el petate y se largó con viento fresco, dejándolo todo manga por hombro. La tierra, abusada y devastada, infestada de túneles con cargas de dinamita aún por detonar, amenaza con volar por los aires en cualquier momento. Los paisanos de Bordon, Virginia, coexisten en ese desamparo. Consciente o inconscientemente, han recibido el funesto legado de lo que padeció la tierra. Un legado de ...

An astonishing, even shocking debut--darker than a bad night in hell--that is written with both humor and heart by "a writer with abundant and scary gifts and consummate skill." Set in a bitterly benighted, mine-polluted corner of Virginia, Nitro Mountain follows a group of people bound together by alcohol, small-time crime, and music. There's Leon, a hapless bass player who can embroil himself in trouble just by getting out of bed in the morning. And his would-be girlfriend, Jennifer, who...

The Summer 2018 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year’s four issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles; the Fall and Winter issues are staff-edited.As guest-editor Jill McCorkle writes in her introduction, “Some of the most satisfying moments in fiction are those where I might gasp with shock or surprise only to immediately see that I should have known, that in...

Hekate and Diana. Odin and Apollo. Freyja and the Witch-Lord. Eternal Haunted Summer was born in the late summer of 2009. It was created as a place where Pagans and polytheists and witches (and non-Pagans with a love of the old myths) could feature their short stories and poems and essays with those of a like mind and similar beliefs and practices. EHS has grown steadily over the years, due entirely to the wonderful contributors whose works fill its digital pages. Without their creativity ...