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  • The Carolina Table: North Carolina Writers on Food

    by Randall Kenan ...
    At the intersection of food and story, The Carolina Table: North Carolina Writers on Food offers a collection of food-related stories set in North Carolina, though geography is sometimes secondary to the main theme, which is food in any form: meals and manners, cooking and ingredients, recipes and recollections. Novelist Michael Parker writes about his mother's reluctant, but exclamation-point ... Read more

    $7.45 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • If I Had Two Wings

    Stories

    by Randall Kenan ...
    Finalist for 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award in FictionLonglisted for the 2020 National Book Award for FictionFinalist for the 2021 Aspen Words Literary PrizeMingling the earthy with the otherworldly, these ten stories chronicle ineffable events in ordinary lives.In Kenan's fictional territory of Tims Creek, North Carolina, an old man rages in his nursing home, a parson beats up an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Visitation of Spirits

    by Randall Kenan ...
    Outsider Classics is Dead Ink's resurrection ground for the strange, the silenced, and the outcasts. This series exhumes lost literary voices that were ahead of their time to restore them to the cult status they always deserved. From forgotten masterpieces to once-censored provocations, each title is a reaction against the canon curated for readers who want to stray into the margins and away from ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A Visitation of Spirits

    A Novel

    by Randall Kenan ...
    **“With A Visitation of Spirits, Randall Kenan continues James Baldwin’s legendary tradition of ‘telling it on the mountain.’”—**San Francisco ChronicleWhen A Visitation of Spirits was published, Randall Kenan (1963-2020) was instantly recognized as a writer of significance, and one who brought into literary fiction the southern Black, gay experience, one of the first such writers to achieve ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Black Folk Could Fly

    Selected Writings by Randall Kenan

    by Randall Kenan ...
    A personal, social, and intellectual self-portrait of the beloved and enormously influential late Randall Kenan, a master of both fiction and nonfiction.Virtuosic in his use of literary forms, nurtured and unbounded by his identities as a Black man, a gay man, an intellectual, and a Southerner, Randall Kenan was known for his groundbreaking fiction. Less visible were his extraordinary nonfiction ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • The Cross of Redemption

    Uncollected Writings

    by James Baldwin ...
    **From one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the past century—a collection of essays, articles, reviews, and interviews that have never before been gathered in a single volume.“An absorbing portrait of Baldwin’s time—and of him.” —New York Review of Books**James Baldwin was an American literary master, renowned for his fierce engagement with issues haunting our common ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Fire This Time

    by Randall Kenan ...
    “Kenan continues Baldwin’s legendary tradition of ‘telling it on the mountain’ by giving a voice to the unvarnished truth.”—The San Francisco ChronicleJames Baldwin's The Fire Next Time was one of the essential books of the sixties, and one of the most galvanizing statements of the American civil rights movement.In The Fire This Time, inspired by Baldwin, Kenan combines elements of memoir and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Ploughshares Summer 2018 Guest-Edited by Jill McCorkle

    by Jill McCorkle, Wendell Berry, Ron Rash, Randall Kenan, Bobbie Ann Mason, Eileen Pollack, Belle Boggs, Robert Cohen, Carrie Cooperider, Ashlee Crews, Lee Clay Johnson, Louise Marburg, Lydia Martin, Dan McDermott, Erin Singer, Stuart Dischell, Serene Taleg-Agha ...
    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 ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Best Creative Nonfiction of the South, Volume II: North Carolina

    by Casey Clabough, Thomas Rain Crowe, Hal Crowther, Jan DeBlieu, Clyde Edgerton, Georgann Eubanks, Marianne Gingher, Judy Goldman, Stephanie Elizondo Griest0, Allen Gurganus1, Scott Huler2, Randall Kenan3, Jill McCorkle4, Michael McFee5, Robert Morgan6, Michael Parker7, Ron Rash8, Bland Simpson9 ...
    Series Book 2 - The Best Creative Nonfiction of the South
    Best Creative Nonfiction of the South serves as a valuable resource for scholars, students, writers, and general readers interested in creative nonfiction both from specific areas of the South and across the region as a whole. This North Carolina volume, second in the series, contains essays that celebrate and document the Tar Heel state’s diverse cultures and geography, from the mountains to the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Black Folk Could Fly

    Selected Writings

    by Randall Kenan ...
    Narrated by Jaime Lincoln Smith ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 30 min

    A personal, social, and intellectual self-portrait of the beloved and enormously influential late Randall Kenan, a master of both fiction and nonfiction.Virtuosic in his use of literary forms, nurtured and unbounded by his identities as a Black man, a gay man, an intellectual, and a Southerner, Randall Kenan was known for his groundbreaking fiction. Less visible were his extraordinary nonfiction ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    If I Had Two Wings

    Stories

    by Randall Kenan ...
    Narrated by JD Jackson ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 18 min

    Mingling the earthy with the otherworldly, these ten stories chronicle ineffable events in ordinary lives.In Kenan's fictional territory of Tims Creek, North Carolina, an old man rages in his nursing home, a parson beats up an adulterer, a rich man is haunted by a hog, and an elderly woman turns unwitting miracle worker. A retired plumber travels to Manhattan, where Billy Idol sweeps him into his ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Best Creative Nonfiction of the South, Volume I: Virginia

    by Casey Clabough, Adrian Blevins, Mr. Greg Bottoms, Michael P. Branch, Kelly Cherry, Michael Chitwood, Mark Edmundson, Margaret Gibson, John Pineda0, Lucinda Roy1, Matthew Vollmer2, Tom Wolfe3 ...
    Series Book 1 - The Best Creative Nonfiction of the South
    Best Creative Nonfiction of the South, of which this Virginia collection is the first volume, serves as a valuable resource for scholars, students, writers, and general readers interested in creative nonfiction both from specific areas of the South and across the region as a whole. The writers included in each volume come from diverse backgrounds, generations, and artistic traditions. Most, if not ... Read more

    $12.99 USD