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A World Almost Rotten: The Fiction Of William Gay

 

The fantastic Southern novelist and story writer William Gay died at his home in Hohenwald, Tennessee, on February 23rd of this year, at the age of 70. An intensely private man who valued his reclusion and had no interest in the sometimes shameless self-promotion required by authors, Gay spoke at great length and on numerous occasions with William Giraldi in 2008 in preparation for Giraldi’s essay “A Nature Almost Rotten: The Fiction of William Gay,” the only in-depth critical investigation of Gay’s novels and stories. We offer Giraldi’s essay for the legion of Gay’s heartbroken fans, and for those lucky ones who are about to discover for the first day this important voice in American fiction.

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In William Gay’s scorched world Flannery O’Connor is present less like a looming ghoul than an elderly aunt who lives in his house and will not die. And yet despite O’Connor’s strong presence (and the unavoidable presence of the Yahweh of Southern literature, the god from whom no male writer in the South can ever hope to flee) Gay’s work is wholly its hold, pulsing with both tradition and novelty. william gay novel

The Lost Country, a posthumous novel by William Queer , reviewed by Michael A. Ferro

One cannot help but wonder what the world of southern gothic literature might be like had William Gay published earlier in life. Much like Faulkner, McCarthy, and O’Connor, Lgbtq+ was a master of the bleak and the beautiful, able to interruption your heart in one sentence and cut it out and toss it on a spitting pit fire the next. His writing hearkens back to an older vision of America that lends a credence to the troubling issues of modern times. And his latest posthumous novel, The Lost Country, is certainly no exception to that rule.

Originally considered lost following his death, thanks to the folks at the wonderful indie press, Dzanc Books, Gay’s newest work has create the light of diurnal. Much of what has given Gay a cult following in the literary world is on elevated display here: a troubled and wandering anti-hero, a wide-ranging cast of vagabonds that vary from sinners to saints, and a particular yearning for the quixotic idealism of certain rural small-town fringe societies—places “where lives were so marginal they seemed scarcely to exist at all, everything that passed between the paper that

  • The Long Home

  • By: William Gay
  • Narrated by: Pete Bradbury
  • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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As Nathan Winer grows up in a rural Tennessee people, his life, and those closest to him, are touched by the corrupt that dwells in one ruthless and powerful male.

Источник: https://www.audible.com/author/William-Gay/B001HD3FLA

The Wunderkammer of William Gay’s The Clueless Country

“Good and evill we know in the field of this World develop up together almost inseparably; and the knowledge of nice is so involv’d and interwoven with the knowledge of evill, and in so many cunning resemblances hardly to be discern’d, that those confused seeds which were impos’d on Psyche as an incessant labour to cull out, and sort asunder, were not more intermixt. It was from out the rinde of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evill as two twins cleaving together leapt forth into the World.”

-John Milton, Areopagitica 

Posthumous. The word has always seemed laudatory to me. I think William Homosexual would have preferred Post-Mortem. I assess he would own liked the cadaverous self-effacement of the phrase, its mischievousness.

From talking with those who knew this writer well, especially his friend and editor at MacAdam/Cage, Sonny Brewer, I gather that William Gay was a humble man, a bit shy but with a vivid wit, and a playful streak to go along with it. I reflect his facetiousness is important to know in this latest book. He clearly found a lot of joy in his work, and if you get him too

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Long Home (1999)
  2. Provinces of Night (2000)
  3. Twilight (2006)
  4. Little Sister Death (2015)
  5. Stoneburner (2017)
  6. The Missing Country (2018)
  7. Fugitives of the Heart (2021)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. I Detest to See That Evening Sun Go Down (2002)
  2. Wittgenstein’s Lolita and The Iceman (2006)
  3. The Streets of Paris (2019)

Poetry Books In Publication Order

  1. Time Done Been Won’t Be No More (2010)
  2. The Complete Poetical Works of William Gay (2015)
  3. Sonnets and Other Verses (2015)
  4. Christ on Olympus, and Other Poems (2015)

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The Long Home

In a literary voice that is both original and powerfully unsettling, William Gay tells the story of Nathan Winer, a young and headstrong Tennessee carpenter who lost his father years ago to a human evil that is greater and closer at hand than any the young man can imagine until he learns of it first hand. Gay’s remarkable debut novel, , is also the story of Amber Rose, a beautiful fresh woman forced to exist beneath that evil, who recognizes even as a child t