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Missouri Writers Guild interview
In anticipation of the Missouri Writers Guild meeting in April 2013, Margo Dill of the guild has created and posted an interview with me. I’ll be delivering a talk called “How to Parse a Press.” Here’s a sample from Margo’s interview: MWG: Welcome, Steve, thank you for talking with us today about what you are…
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Kind words already: praise for Some Kinds of Love: Stories
“The language is totally unlike anything used by myself or any other writer of Ozarks fiction. Is it possible that Niangua will become your Stay More? Your ‘new’ style is magic realism at its best.” —Donald Harington, author of The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks, The Choiring of the Trees, Enduring, and many others “In…
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Working with my better angels: on the value of publishing with a university press
For University Press Week, November 11-17 This week, November 11-17, is University Press Week, a seven-day celebration of what university presses are, what they do, and what great value they add to their communities, those scholarly, state, and regional consumers of content. I have an acute sense of why we need a week to heighten…
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Howard Bahr and Steve Yates discuss civilians in the Civil War and the writing of “historical” novels
Howard Bahr and Steve Yates discuss civilians in the Civil War and “historical” novels at Lorelei Books from Steven B Yates on Vimeo.
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Howard Bahr and Steve Yates discuss civilians in the Civil War at Lorelei Books, Vicksburg
Saturday, June 9, from 5-6 p.m. Vicksburg, Mississippi, is certainly a fitting spot to discuss civilians in the American Civil War. Vicksburg’s citizens, trapped by the battle, were subjected to the most fierce bombardment in warfare up to that date. Even civilians in Sebastopol in the Crimean War were not so thoroughly pounded. I’m honored…
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Eleven mistakes of the writer to a producer OR how I blew my chance to be on The History Channel
I write this as quickly as I can both to remember it all, and because I think it’s funny. A well-meaning and very talented writer, Steve Wiegenstein, who wrote the new novel Slant of Light, suggested my name to a producer for a company that makes shows at the History Channel. She was scouting for…
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Ozarks Studies Symposium lecture
Michael Norman and others have asked me to post what I said on September 22 at the Ozarks Studies Symposium at Missouri State-West Plains. There was a great crowd, including Marideth Sisco of Blackberry Winter from the film Winter’s Bone. And they gave me a warm welcome and the blessing of a keen listening. Wish…
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End times and why we write fiction from history
And why we sell books… This last trip to New York City brought many currents into collision, many strains that I wonder about sparking as they crossed. When I was a child in the Ozarks, there were only two television stations on early Saturday morning. One carried agricultural news—large men in western-style sport coats, plaid…
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What I did say at Voices of Conflict: From Battlefields to Springfield and Beyond
Voices of Conflict: The American Civil War from Steven B Yates on Vimeo. Brentwood Public Library, Monday, April 18: Steve Yates, Dr. William Garrett Piston, and Dr. Randall Fuller talk about the genesis of their books. This vimeo link at http://www.vimeo.com/22632952 will take you to the full lecture and Q&A from Monday night.
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