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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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Being away from what you write: what does distance do to fiction’s sense of place?
In Dr. Brooks Blevins’s class in Ozarks Literature and History, the first question a student asked struck at the heart of what I am wondering at now. A longing for the Ozarks, being away from the Ozarks, living in the Deep South, how does this separation affect my writing? Last week, I had two reasons…
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Where does Ozarks Literature begin?
I’m humbled, really quite floored in that tomorrow at 11 a.m. I will stand in Strong Hall on the campus of Missouri State University in Springfield before students in a university course entitled Ozarks Literature and History, and taught by Dr. Brooks Blevins. Thirty students have just finished reading my novel, Morkan’s Quarry. While not…
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Fiction and History 