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Not just epistolary, this novel is archival, told entirely through journals, letters, photos, drawings, notes, and clippings left behind by Nell Doerr, who lived in Lawrence, Kansas, between 1854 and 1889. Although Nell seems so real you can reach out and touch her, she is a fictional character.

When Thomas Fox Averill first heard Jimmy Driftwood's ballad "Tennessee Stud, ” he found the song hauntingly compelling. As he began to imagine the story behind the lyrics, he set out to research the song's history--a tale from "along about eighteen and twenty-five” of the legendary exploits of the greatest horse that ever lived, the "Tennessee Stud, ” and his owner.

Short stories by an O. Henry Award-winning author reveal the ordinary and extraordinary genius of a place, a time, a solitary soul embedded in the minutiae of the everyday.

Raised in the traditional kitchen from which his mother runs her Buen AppeTito catering service, Weston Tito Hingler's childhood is shaped by the foods he eats, especially those he must try before he is allowed to enter the Tsil Caf where his father invites--and at times challenges--diners to experience foods of the New World cooked New Mexican style.Filled with recipes and definitions of New World ingredients, Averill's novel follows Wes as h...

When Thomas Fox Averill first heard Jimmy Driftwood's ballad Tennessee Stud, he found the song hauntingly compelling. As he began to imagine the story behind the lyrics, he set out to research the song's history. Travelling the same route the song chronicles, from Tennessee into Arkansas, through Texas and into Mexico, Averill visited racetracks, Spanish missions, historical museums, a living history farm, and national parks, inventing charact...

It's Christmas, and Carol Dickens's life is in major transition. Her son Finn, a talented trumpet player, is about to leave for college. Her ex-husband, a real-estate wheeler-dealer, wants to sell their properties in Kansas and move to Arizona. Her wheelchair-bound friend, Laurence, has fallen in love with her. To top it all off, Scraps, the family dog, is dying. As her world spins out of control, Carol seeks refuge in her research on the use ...

A reflective journey into Kansas not only as a place but also as a state of mind. The seventeen writers' views span from 1910 to the present.

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