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Justice
Delayed —
Commentary on the conviction of Edgar Ray Killen for manslaughter for the
Killing of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner in 1964 and reminiscences of living in Mississippi at
the time.
Mouth-to-mouth
— What happens when
a 60-year-old man (me) and his wife of 30
years go to kissing school. Yes, we really did it, but only because it was a writing
assignment.
Tupelo of memory — This essay was written for Reed's Gift Shop and Bookstore in Tupelo, Mississippi to be
included with copies of my novel Until the Dawn. It is a
memoir of growing up in Tupelo, one of the two settings for the novel.
Everything for Everybody — life, love
and marriage communal style in the 1970s.
A different
room — A story
about my
son Bill's first week in school
Twins
— Adventures growing up as an identical twin.
Survivors
— A mother in Olympia, a dying man in Los Angeles, a young hemophiliac
from Australia — Victims of personal tragedy find love, hope and family confronting their fears. Living in the Bonus
Round - Music, suicide, healing broken spirits -- life and love on the Internet in the age of AIDS.
Writing in
Faulkner's shadow:
Mississippi
writers talking
— Writers Barry Hannah, Howard Bahr,
Jes Simmons, Larry Johnson and Jack Butler comment on the influence of
William Faulkner, from Mississippi Arts & Letters, July/August 1985.
Forgiving
— an essay on thoughts about the men who assaulted my son Bill.
Remembering New York — my first
few weeks in New York in 1973
Essays on Art
The case against
wall fodder
— A rant against mediocrity
The challenge of
abstraction
Art and Theater Reviews
Note: I have quit posting
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go to my blog, South Sound
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The Backside of Nowhere
a novel
"Alec Clayton’s The Back Side of Nowhere is his
best novel so far, and is a rollicking good read. It contains Hollywood pop
gossip as well as downhome humor and veers from the ridiculous to the sublime,
with strong characters and important social issues all subsumed into the plot.
If you liked Clayton’s other novels you should grab this one immediately. It’s
not just good but fun."
Larry Johnson, author of Veins |
cover art by
Glennray
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Imprudent Zeal a
novel
“This book is the great circus train wreck that was America
from the 1950s to the 1990s.
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A tour
de force of autobiographical fiction.”
Lew Hamburg, The Olympian.
"... the mix of characters felt bone real" -Steven
Schalchlin, musician/playwright, in a review on Amazon.com.
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Until the Dawn a
novel
"Stunning debut novel by a wise
new voice in American fiction"
-Dave
Gantt, librarian, Washington, D.C., in a review on Amazon.com.
"...a wonderfully guilty
pleasure - Becky Hendrick, author of Getting It: a Guide to
Understanding and Appreciating Art.
"...such fertile ground
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Larry Johnson, Southern Quarterly.
This
book is now being serialized on
dailynovel.com
where you can read a chapter a day free of charge.
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