Why write The Legend of the Albino Farm from Steven B Yates on Vimeo.
WEST PLAINS, Missouri — At the 2016 Ozarks Studies Symposium, Steve Yates, author of the forthcoming novel, The Legend of the Albino Farm, answers a surprise question from Matthew J. Hernando (“Faces Like Devils: The Bald Knobber Vigilantes in the Ozarks“). The answer tells why Yates wrote such a novel, which will be available from Unbridled Books in April 2017.
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3 responses to “Why write “The Legend of the Albino Farm: A Novel””
Countering a mob-energized dehumanizing legend with a ‘another lie’ constitutes a powerful writerly technique…especially these days.
John, I have been so encouraged to see posts and philosophy coming from you again this year! When I started writing “The Legend of the Albino Farm” in 2013 I had no concept where it might fit in the universe. And then along came 2016. At one point in the novel, trying to be coy and smart with her fiance, the heiress to the farm, the heroine of the book, says: “There is no truth. Only narrative style.” … Hoo boy! She has visions of the future in the book, which she can’t understand. I did not know she would have visions of my own future. Happy New Year to you!
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Last year, September 2016, at the Ozarks Studies Symposium, this is what I said about “The Legend of the Albino Farm: A Novel.” We leave for West Plains Thursday, and Friday, September 22, 2017, at 1:30 p.m. we’ll see if I lived up to this challenge. The whole slate of presenters is at http://ozarksymposium.wp.missouristate.edu/Presenters.htm