Thomas Fox Averill

• Feb-1995
• / General Fiction
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"To understand why people say 'Dear old Kansas!" is to understand that Kansas is no mere geographical expression, but a 'state of mind,' a religion, and a philosophy in one," writes historian Carl Becker in the classic 1910 essay that leads off this ...

• Apr-2005
• / General Fiction
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Falling under the spell of these short stories by O. Henry Award�"winning author Thomas Fox Averill, a reader might well wonder: What in the world is ordinary? If there really are “just plain folks” anywhere at all, they’d surely be in the sol...

• Aug-2011
• / Literary
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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 a...

• Feb-2012
• / Literary
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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 Café where his fat...

• May-2013
• / Literary
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Though it’s not quite the motherland, Glasglow, Kansas, makes a fine home for Scotsman Rob MacPherson and his son Ewan. As the elder MacPherson blows up whiskey stills in his attempts to make a single-malt Scotch, Ewan falls in love -- at twelve ye...

• Dec-2013
• / General Fiction
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Seeing Mona Naked defines and expands the reader’s vision of contemporary life in the heart of the Great Plains. Not just a collection of stories set in the same place but a series of portraits with the power of creating a vision of that place...

• Aug-2014
• / Literary
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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. H...

• Feb-2018
• / Literary
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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 ou...