Books by Scott McClanahan
Hill William
"You can tell McClanahan feels something when he writes and when he lives. He wants you to feel something too."The Huffington Post
I walked up to the side of the mountain like I used to do when I was a little boy. I looked out over Rainelle and watched it shine. The coal trucks and the logging trucks were still gunning it through town. They were still clear cutting the mountains and cutting the coal from the ground. Then I heard my mother calling and it was like I was a child again.
Beginning to read Hill William is like tuning into a blues station at 4:00 a.m. while driving down the highway. Scott McClanahan's work soars with a brisk and lively plainsong, offering a boisterous peek into a place often passed over in fiction: West Virginia, where coal and heartbreak reign supreme. Hill William testifies to the way place creates and sometimes stifles one's ability to hope. It reads like a Homeric hymn to adventure, to the human comedy's upsets and small downfalls, and revels in its whispers of victory. So grab coffee, beerwhatever gets you through the nightand join Scott around the hearth. Lend him your ear, but be warned: you might not want it back.
Scott McClanahan's work has appeared in New York Tyrant, Bomb, Vice, and Harper Perennial's Fifty-Two Stories. His books include Stories II and Stories V! In 2013 Two Dollar Radio will release his book Crapalachia.
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The Sarah Book
McClanahan's prose is miasmic, dizzying, repetitive. A rushing river of words that reflects the chaos and humanity of the place from which he hails. He writes in an elliptical fever dream so contagious that slowing down is not an option. It would be like putting a doorstop in front of a speeding train. This is not a book you savor. It is one you inhale.” The New York Times
Part memoir, part hillbilly history, part dream, McClanahan embraces humanity with all its grit, writing tenderly of criminals and outcasts, family and the blood ties that bind us.”
Interview Magazine
McClanahan's prose is miasmic, dizzying, repetitive. A rushing river of words that reflects the chaos and humanity of the place from which he hails. [McClanahan] aims to lasso the moon... He is not a writer of halfmeasures. The man has purpose. This is his symphony, every note designed to resonate, to linger.”New York Times Book Review
The Sarah Book is Scott McClanahan's continuation of the semi-autobiographical portrait he's been writing over the years about his life in West Virginia. This one is his portrait of love.
Scott McClanahan is the author of Hill William, Crapalachia, The Incantations of Daniel Johnson and many more.
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The Collected Works of Scott McClanahan Vol. I
"Scott McClanahan is a powerful, exceptional writer, and the overall effect of reading his deceptively simple stories is like getting hit in the head by a champion cage fighter cranked up on meth that was cooked in a trailer without running water in some Kentucky backwoods where people sing murder ballads to their children to put them to sleep." -DONALD RAY POLLOCK, author of The Devil All the Time "He might be one of the great southern storytellers of our time." -VOL. 1 BROOKLYN "When I discovered the stories of Scott McClanahan last year, I was instantly enthralled with his natural storytelling voice and freaky funny tales. There's no pretense to Scott's work. It's like you're just dropped right into the middle of these fantastic and true stories. It's like a sweet blend of my favorite southern writers, Larry Brown and Harry Crews. Reading McClanahan is like listening to a good friend telling you his best real-life stories on your back porch on a humid night. And you both got a nice whiskey buzz going." -KEVIN SAMPSELL, author of A Common Pornography "McClanahan's prose is unfettered and kinetic and his stories seem like a hyper-modern iteration of local color fiction. His delivery is guileless and his morality ambivalent and you get the sense, while reading him, that he is sitting next to you on a barstool, eating peanuts and drinking a beer, and intermittently getting up to pick a song on the jukebox." -THE RUMPUS "Reads like Bukowski with more surprises." -IMPOSE MAGAZINE
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Crapalachia: A Biography of Place
"McClanahan's prose is miasmic, dizzying, repetitive. A rushing river of words that reflects the chaos and humanity of the place from which he hails. [McClanahan] aims to lasso the moon... He is not a writer of half-measures. The man has purpose. This is his symphony, every note designed to resonate, to linger."
New York Times Book Review
"Crapalachia is the genuine article: intelligent, atmospheric, raucously funny and utterly wrenching. McClanahan joins Daniel Woodrell and Tom Franklin as a master chronicler of backwoods rural America."
The Washington Post
"The book that took Scott McClanahan from indie cult writer to critical darling is a series of tales that read like an Appalachian Proust all doped up on sugary soft drinks, and has made a fan of everybody who has opened it up."
Flavorwire
"McClanahan’s deep loyalty to his place and his people gives his story wings: 'So now I put the dirt from my home in my pockets and I travel. I am making the world my mountain.' And so he is."
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"[Crapalachia is] a wild and inventive book, unquestionably fresh of spirit, and totally unafraid to break formalisms to tell it like it was."
Vice
"Part memoir, part hillbilly history, part dream, McClanahan embraces humanity with all its grit, writing tenderly of criminals and outcasts, family and the blood ties that bind us."
Interview Magazine
"A brilliant, unnerving, beautiful curse of a book that will both haunt and charmingly engage readers for years and years and years."
The Nervous Breakdown
"McClanahan's style is as seductive as a circuit preacher's. Crapalachia is both an homage and a eulogy for a place where, through the sorcery of McClanahan's storytelling, we can all pull up a chair and find ourselves at home."
San Diego City Beat
"Epic. McClanahan’s prose is straightforward, casual, and enjoyable to read, reminiscent at times of Kurt Vonnegut. Crapalachia is one of the rare books that, after you reach the end, you don’t get up to check your e-mail or Facebook or watch TV. You just sit quietly and think about the people of the book and how they remind you of people you used to know. You feel lucky to have known them, and you feel grateful to McClanahan for the reminder."
Rain Taxi Review of Books
When Scott McClanahan was fourteen he went to live with his Grandma Ruby and his Uncle Nathan, who suffered from cerebral palsy. Crapalachia is a portrait of these formative years, coming-of-age in rural West Virginia.
Peopled by colorful characters and their quirky stories, Crapalachia interweaves oral folklore and area history, providing an ambitious and powerful snapshot of overlooked Americana.
Scott McClanahan is the author of Stories II and Stories V! His fiction has appeared in BOMB, Vice, and New York Tyrant. His novel Hill William is forthcoming from Tyrant Books.
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Pets
by Ann Beattie, DK Publishing, Blake Butler, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Christine Schutt, Tao Lin, Kathryn Scanlan, Sarah Manguso, Francesca Ferri, Sam Pink, Scott McClanahan, David Nutt, Mark Leidner, Annie DeWitt, Chelsea Hodson, Kristen Iskandrian, Nicolette Polek, Yuka Igarashi, Raegan Bird, Ryan C. K. Choi, Clune,Michael W., Patty Yumi Cottrell, Precious Okoyomon, Mallory Whitten
Puppies, kittens, hamsters, and goldfish are some of the pets that delight children. They�re all here in this warm and wonderful padded cloth book for baby, which comes in a clear plastic case with carrying handle. (Ages Infant�3)
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Pets
by Ann Beattie, DK Publishing, Blake Butler, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Christine Schutt, Tao Lin, Kathryn Scanlan, Sarah Manguso, Francesca Ferri, Sam Pink, Scott McClanahan, David Nutt, Mark Leidner, Annie DeWitt, Chelsea Hodson, Kristen Iskandrian, Nicolette Polek, Yuka Igarashi, Raegan Bird, Ryan C. K. Choi, Clune,Michael W., Patty Yumi Cottrell, Precious Okoyomon, Mallory Whitten
In Touch and Feel Pets, children will learn about their favorite pets through an engaging textured format, as they pet the silky dog, meet the whiskery cat, examine the glistening gold fish, and more. A sparkly irresistible jacket encourages toddlers to pick the book up, the bright bold interior pages help them develop object recognition, and the descriptive text builds their language skills — making this a favorite for both parents and children.
With a sparkling new look, these bestselling DK classics are sure to become favorites for a whole new generation of young readers. Babies and toddlers will be drawn to the captivating, tactile pages, and will want to touch, feel and explore every spread.
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Pets
by Ann Beattie, DK Publishing, Blake Butler, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Christine Schutt, Tao Lin, Kathryn Scanlan, Sarah Manguso, Francesca Ferri, Sam Pink, Scott McClanahan, David Nutt, Mark Leidner, Annie DeWitt, Chelsea Hodson, Kristen Iskandrian, Nicolette Polek, Yuka Igarashi, Raegan Bird, Ryan C. K. Choi, Clune,Michael W., Patty Yumi Cottrell, Precious Okoyomon, Mallory Whitten
This anthology collects original writing and art by novelists, poets, and academics about their pets, including a killer chihuahua, a catatonic toy poodle, a contraband cat, a backyard full of endangered desert tortoises, five forgotten parakeets, and a skinny ex-racehorse named Joe. From legends like Ann Beattie and Christine Schutt to cult figures like Scott McClanahan and Tao Lin, this anthology collects writing from some of today’s best literary talent. Edited by Jordan Castro with contributions by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Ann Beattie, Raegan Bird, Blake Butler, Ryan C. K. Choi, Michael W. Clune, Patty Yumi Cottrell, Annie DeWitt, Chelsea Hodson, Yuka Igarashi, Kristen Iskandrian, Mark Leidner, Tao Lin, Scott McClanahan, Sarah Manguso, David Nutt, Precious Okoyomon, Sam Pink, Nicolette Polek, Kathryn Scanlan, Christine Schutt, and Mallory Whitten.
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Stories II
The sequel to Scott McClanahan's acclaimed earlier collection of stories about West Virginia.
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