Breece d j pancake biography of abraham
•
Thank you, Nichole, for sharing your students
marvelous insights with us.
This week we are pleased to share a guest post from Nichole LeFebvre. Nichole is a Poe/Faulkner Fellow at the University of Virginia, where she teaches creative writing. Her poems can be found in Prairie Schooner and Barrelhouse and recent prose in Lit Hub, Paper Darts, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn. She is the Nonfiction Editor of Meridian: A Semi-Annual and is at work on a memoir.
Researchers may have met Nichole at Special Collections, where she used to work as a graduate student assistant in the Reference department. Now, shes using that experience to incorporate original materials into her creative writing instruction.
Working at Special Collections, I’d often find myself in awe. Researchers would carry diaries and ledgers to the reference desk, pointing out their surprising finds. Reading Faulkner’s grocery list, I’d wonder about his carbo-loading: “breadsticks, bread, breakfast bread.” I’d sho
•
Breece DJ Pancake was born in Charleston, West Virginia in
Breece DJ Pancake conjured small worlds so grim, desperate, and ugly that the greatest joy of reading his stories is leaving them. We might exhale in relief at getting to exit the stark reality of Hollow, but Pancakes characters are so real that it feels like they must go on living in stale despair long after we’ve closed the book. The viewpoint character in Hollow is a West Virginia coal miner named kompis. His girlfriend Sally is about to leave himand take the dog to boot. He lets her go but reclaims his dog. The next evening, vän wakes up on the floor of his trailer, hungover: Looking into the mirror, he saw the imprints of the carpet pattern on his cheek, the poison hanging beneath his eyes. He wanted to throw up, but could not. The story ends with Buddy hunting and killing a pregnant doe:
He kicked the unborn fawn aside, disconnected the doe’s guts, sliced off the hindquarters, and le
•
Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary
Maya Angelou
James Applewhite
Harriette Arnow
Marilou Awiakta
George William Bagby
Joseph Glover Baldwin
Benjamin Banneker
Gerald W Barrax
Frederick Barthelme
Rick Bass
John Spencer Bassett
Hamilton Basso
Frances Courtenay Baylor
John Beecher
Madison Smartt Bell
Lerone Bennett
Wendell Berry
Doris Betts
John Peale Bishop
Arthur Blackamore ca post
Richard Bland
Joseph Blotner
Roy Blount Jr
Robert Bolling
John Henry Boner
Arna Wendell Bontemps
Kate Langley Bosher
Jonathan Boucher
James Boyd
Roark Bradford
Rick Bragg
Taylor Branch
Cleanth Brooks