Steve Yates / Fiction & History
Guest Post: Anything Can Happen at an Independent Bookstore. ABOVE IS THE LINK TO A BLOG POST AT LEMURIA BOOKS’ BLOG. HERE’S THE TEXT (BUT IT IS WAY COOLER TO GO TO LEMURIA IN PERSON SATURDAY MAY 2) ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN AT AN INDEPENDENT BOOK STORE Saturday, May 2 is Independent Book store Day all […]
Read the post ↗JACKSON, Mississippi — Steve Yates reads from his new novel The Teeth of the Souls at the Eudora Welty House in Belhaven subdivision. The Eudora Welty House, located at 1119 Pinehurst Street, is open for tours by reservation only Tuesdays through Fridays at 9 and 11 a.m. and 1 and 3 p.m. Admission prices are […]
Read the post ↗On March 25 at the Fox Theatre in Downtown Springfield, Missouri The History Museum on the Square hosted a panel of scholars and keyed off my novel The Teeth of the Souls (Moon City Press 2015) to discuss A Springfield History of Race and Faith This is what I said. Thank you, James Braun, for […]
Read the post ↗FOR IMMEDIATE NEWS RELEASE Contact: Missouri State University Office for Diversity and Inclusion Email: DiversityandInclusion@MissouriState.edu Telephone: 417-836-3736 A Springfield History of Race and Faith: A Reading and Panel Discussion Featuring Novelist Steve Yates With a Special Dance Performance by God’s Chosen Ministry (MSU’s Student Praise Ministry Group) 7:00-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 25 In the Historic […]
Read the post ↗A QUESTION AND ANSWER with Steve Yates author of The Teeth of the Souls: A Novel from Moon City Press Born and reared in Springfield, Missouri, Steve Yates is an M.F.A. graduate from the creative writing program at the University of Arkansas. He is the winner of the Juniper Prize in Fiction and in 2013, […]
Read the post ↗The conductor went back to his paperwork, and Artemus looked past him out the window where the woods, the moss, the houses—some of them on stilts now—passed in winter array, made soft and ephemeral in a light the color of old pearls. That sublime passage is Howard Bahr from his extraordinarily beautiful novel, Pelican Road. […]
Read the post ↗Why are the villains often so much more fun to write and so much more enjoyable to read about than our angels? Consider John Milton’s dilemma—the most exciting parts of his great epic poem, Paradise Lost, all involve Satan, the Fallen Angel. Look at Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. When the Duke of Bilgewater […]
Read the post ↗I would love to quote feline jazz philosopher/poet Thomas O’Malley here, but I know how jealously his parent company guards his lyrics and wisdom, even though I doubt that alley cat was much of a company man at heart. At a sales reps’ meeting in New York City, the last of the December meetings I […]
Read the post ↗BOOK 1 I DREAM YOU In the story, it all happened in the Ozark Mountain country, many miles from what we of the city call civilization. In life, it has all happened many, many times before, in many, many places. The two trails lead afar. The story, so very old, is still in the telling. […]
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