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Uncle Trenchmouth strikes again.

7/14/2015

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American sweetheart Glenn Taylor has got a roundup of Appalachian books over on the snazzy literary blog Electric Literature that mentions Trampoline in the same digital breath as works by Ann Pancake, George Singleton, Frank X Walker, Crystal Wilkinson, and Dot Jackson. Flip em, trade em, collect em all. And read em. And read Glenn's new novel A Hanging at Cinder Bottom while you're at it. 
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Getting Bent with Sheldon Lee.

7/14/2015

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Thanks, Sheldon Lee Compton, for the mention on the dang slick blog, Bent Country.
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Trampoline review in Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

6/24/2015

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June 20, 2015: Dylan Hicks reviews Trampoline for The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, comparing our hero Dawn Jewell to Hamlet. Which we think is probably good, but makes us wish we'd paid more attention in high school, just to be sure.
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Trampoline part of round-up of graphic novels "more novel than graphic."

6/24/2015

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June 10, 2015: Allyce Amidon, associate editor of Foreword Reviews, included Trampoline in a blog post called "More Novel Than Graphic: Authors and Illustrators Discuss the New Hybrid." Also discussed in the piece are Gail Sidonie Sobat, author of Jamie’s Got a Gun and Frieda Wishinsky and Willow Dawson, author and illustrator, respectively, of Avis Dolphin.
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Inside Appalachia radio story on Trampoline.

6/9/2015

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West Virginia Public Radio producer Roxy Todd produced a very nice piece on Trampoline for the radio news magazine Inside Appalachia. One can listen to it, or read the transcript, here. They also posted a bunch of the illustrations at that link. Thank you, Roxy and the rest of the good folks at Inside Appalachia for doing this. Inside Appalachia is a dandy news magazine. For example, this week's show also includes pieces on the passing of Jean Ritchie and the latest from UMWA president Cecil Roberts.
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Herald-Leader feature on Trampoline very nice.

6/1/2015

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Thanks, Lexington Herald-Leader for publishing, and Candace Chaney for writing a nice feature about the whole first novel, Trampoline situation. There are pictures of Al's Bar and the Holler Poets scene there, too. 
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Good press from Huntington, WV.

5/27/2015

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A review in The Huntington WV Herald-Dispatch calls Trampoline an "unfathomably good book, and quite possibly, one of the best books to ever come out of eastern Kentucky." Big talk, and probably not totally warranted, but thank you.
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Double-shot of Lexington May 27th & May 31st.

5/23/2015

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I will on the bill with writer Mary Ann Taylor-Hall and musician Chris Sullivan as part of Holler 84, the 7th anniversary show of the Holler Poets series at Al's Bar in Lexington on Wednesday May 27th at 8pm. Al's Bar can be found at 601 North Limestone St, Lexington, KY 40508. I reckon I'll be reading from Trampoline. 


I'll also be at esteemed independent bookseller The Morris Bookshop, located in the Chevy Chase section of Lexington at 882 East High St., Lexington, KY 40502, on Sunday May 31st at 2PM. I'll be reading and signing Trampoline.
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Missing Vic Chesnutt today.

5/8/2015

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I was listening to Vic Chesnutt last night and was missing him something awful. He was pretty much a quadraplegic after an automobile accident he had when he was eighteen. He was from Zebulon, GA, but hung around Athens, mostly. He overdosed on muscle relaxants in 2009, $50,000 in medical debt, without health insurance, delaying surgery. It was his "third or fourth" suicide attempt. Kathleen Tyner, my old Strategies for Media Literacy pal from San Francisco first told me about Vic back in the 90s. She sent me a video about him called Speed Racer which is great. It's about the recording of his second album West of Rome, which Michael Stipe produced and is also great. This video clip was from one of Chesnutt's last concerts, in November 2009, at a house in Montreal. It's one of my favorite live performances of all time. The song is from the album North Star Deserter. RIP Vic Chesnutt. Also, in case it wasn't clear from the above: everyone should have health care.
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Trampoline writeup in WIRofB.

5/7/2015

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May 7, 2015: Stephen M. Vest of Kentucky Monthly Magazine reviews Trampoline for The Washington Indpendent Review of Books calling it "jagged, dark, and honest." Which is much appreciated.
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