If your cre­ative work owes any­thing to or resem­bles the works of the fol­low­ing list of folks, please con­sider send­ing me a story or poem or essay to fea­ture on Fried Chicken and Coffee.


Harry Crews, Larry Brown, Dorothy Alli­son, Paula K. Gover, Lisa Koger, Chris Offutt, Silas House, Chris Hol­brook, Lee Smith, Ron Rash, Richard Ford, Jim Har­ri­son, Don­ald Ray Pol­lock, Rus­sell Banks, Tom Franklin, Cor­mac McCarthy, Andre Dubus, William Gay, Charles Fra­zier, Tom Cobb, Breece Pan­cake, Pete Fromm, Nel­son Algren, Dori­anne Laux, Mary Lee Set­tle, Mary Hood, Daniel Woodrell, Dagob­erto Gilb, James Lee Burke, Isabel Zuber, Willy Vlautin, James Crum­ley, Gwyn Hyman Rubio, Jayne Ann Phillips, Char­lie Smith, Andrew Hud­gins, Richard Hugo, James Dickey, Chuck Kinder, Gur­ney Nor­man, James Still, Wen­dell Berry, Mark Richard, Pinck­ney Bene­dict, Tim McLau­rin, Brad Wat­son, Steve Yarbrough, Rick Bass, Richard Cur­rey, Bob­bie Ann Mason…

I'm always inter­ested in read­ing writ­ers I don't know, too, so if you have sug­ges­tions, please shout out in the comments.

Later on this week we'll have another piece by the Leg­endary Jim Parks. Stay tuned.

P.S. Did any of you know that Wednes­day is White Trash Wednes­day for some blog­gers? Google up some stuff, if you like. I learn some­thing new every day.