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Finding the story in history: how to research for detail in the historical novel
FINDING THE STORY IN HISTORY I have heard that the best book you can buy to help you create historical fiction rich in detail is a facsimile of the Sears and Roebuck catalog. Of course, I rushed right out and got one, from 1897. I’ve pawed through it a couple of times, charmed. But I’m…
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The design of “Sandy and Wayne: A Novella,” a Q&A with Kelly Rae Bahr
Dock Street Press designer Kelly Rae Bahr was kind enough to join me in a round of questions and answers about the creation of Sandy and Wayne: A Novella. Q: Kelly, I have to tell you, this is my fourth published work of fiction, and I have never had so many book designers, booksellers, and even…
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The Golden Age: Will We Know It When We Live It?
There are very few days when I think of myself as a writer, as an artist, or a creator. As I said in this really pleasurable discussion about creativity on Marshall Ramsey’s radio show, “Now You’re Talking,” fifty hours a week I am, joyfully and willingly, the Bob Barker of Scholarly Publishing. I am Guy…
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Steve Yates reading from The Teeth of the Souls at The Eudora Welty House, Jackson, Mississippi
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…
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A Springfield History of Race and Faith
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…
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Reading of The Teeth of the Souls at The Library Center in Springfield, Missouri
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A Q&A with the author of The Teeth of the Souls from Moon City Press
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,…
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Bill Harrison (1933-2013), unforgettable teacher, novelist, short story writer
Shadows, lies, facsimilies: so much of life was secondhand, weighed down with arguments and explanations. If we stop moving and try to explain anything, he knew, we truly die; if we pause to make maps or poems, if we take our gaze off the shimmering horizon for an instant, we’re surely lost; if we abandon…
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Abandoned Mississippi: Port Gibson Oil Works
Originally posted on Preservation in Mississippi: The abandoned plant of the Mississippi Cotton Oil Company wasn’t on the recent Port Gibson Holiday Home Tour, but as I was wandering about before the tours started, I was drawn to the place, just north of downtown, like a moth to the flame. I’ve always been intrigued by…
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A Q & A with the author of Some Kinds of Love: Stories
Q & A with Steve Yates author of Some Kinds of Love: Stories (University of Massachusetts Press) Steve Yates won the 2012 Juniper Prize for fiction, established in 2004 by the University of Massachusetts Press in collaboration with the UMass Amherst MFA Program for Poets and Writers, presented annually for an outstanding work of…
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