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Looking like Kentucky’s gonna put the bulldogs away

A Sabbath poem by Wendell Berry

Extraordinarily kind words for THEY ALL FALL THE SAME from Kentucky icon Silas House 📘 — living off this kind of praise until 1/7/25 when y’all can finally read it.

So stoked to be reading from Turkeyfoot at Healing Appalachia this Saturday! I’ll be set up signing books as well! Such a powerful community who’s raising awareness and money for recovery in Appalachia!

My first short story ever published was the runner up for the Gurney Norman Prize for Fiction in UK’s Limestone Journal. I hadn’t read any Gurney at the time so I went to my granny and said, “Granny, if you want to support my education the best thing you could do is buy me this

Now Rick Childers done worked a game of TONK into this novel. Iconic!

The worse thing about your dad teaching you Tonk is realizing none of your peers know how to play. Thank you Joy Priest for appreciating my Tonk reference 😂

This is how it feels telling people to buy my book

Appalachian Lit, Day 64, "Lambs of Men" by Charles Dodd White. Charles is an absolutely gorgeous writer and all of his books are worth reading. This is my favorite though, this book of damaged people trying to co-exist in difficult terrain. Read Charles, not conspiracy theorist #Vance

After anticipating the day for so long it is hard to believe that Turkeyfoot has been out in the world for one whole week. I have been genuinely shocked (and tickled) by how many of you have already read this thing. I’ve had so many kind souls reach out to compliment the book and

Sometimes the silence can be like the thunder SILENCES, OHIO by Maud Lavin is out from CJ Press today y'all. Real stories of the Midwest. amazon.com/SILENCES-OHIO-…

Tomorrow evening from 5:45-7pm at Berea's Loyal Jones Appalachian Center, 4 of my folklore students from last semester will be interviewing Kentucky woodcarvers Lonnie & Twyla Money about their artistic practice, inspiration, and legacy. The event is free & open to the public & dinner will be served!

I pray the surprise and joy of someone telling me they read my novel never fades.

Book mail! Rick Childers M.E. Proctor Ron Earl Phillips Shotgun Honey - Flash subs now open

A fully loaded double barrel of Shotgun Honey - Flash subs now open! Buy these books and dig in for an evening.

If this is the menu, just know it’s about to be scrumptious. #twinning

Last week was so much fun. Caught up on a lot of grading last night, now my foot is really sore. I’m not saying those two things are correlated in any way, but I also don’t want to rule it out.

I'm deep in your book Rick Childers and you're breaking my heart...