Town Smokes contains nine stories set in rural West Virginia. The stories are masculine in tone, story, and character. Benedict’s world is a regional one, but the stories are universal....
Collection of short stories set in West Virginia, which drew comparisons to the writings of Breece D'J Pancake when originally published....
A collection of short stories which illuminate, with imagery and humor, the darkest corners of the American soul. The author attempts to capture the personalities of rural America, shaped by poverty, cruelty, and an odd compassion....
A tale of malevolence and violence, this "stunning novel" (New York Times Book Review) is the story of Tannhauser, a crazed backswoodsman turned drug lord, and the idiosyncratic characters who are enticed into his destructive orbit.
"An expans...
The story collection Miracle Boy and Other Stories contains fourteen works of short fiction written over the last fifteen years - and published in some of America's top literary magazines and anthologies - by one of West Virginia's most established a...
A thrice-annual literary journal publishing some of the finest poetry, prose and nonfiction anywhere. The Winter 2011 issue contains work by Pickney Benedict, Clifford Garstang, Nina Schuyler, Jessica Barksdale, Deidre Woollard, Jill Stukenberg, Chri...