Celebratg William Gay | Chapter 16

Contents:

• WILLIAM GAY DI AT 70; WRER TIED TO TENNSEE
• CELEBRATG WILLIAM GAY
• BT OF WILLIAM GAY
• WILLIAM GAY NET WORTH, AGE, HEIGHT, WEIGHT, WIFE, WIKI-B, FAY 2023
• WILLIAM GAY
• WILLIAM GAY (THOR)
• AUTHOR WILLIAM GAY DI AT 70
• WILLIAMGAY
• WILLIAM GAY WAS NEVER TOO BY FOR LIFE’S SMALLER MOMENTS
• BOOK REVIEW: WILLIAM GAY’S GREATNS LIV ON POSTHUMO PUBLITN
• THE WUNRKAMMER OF WILLIAM GAY’S THE LOST COUNTRY

WILLIAM GAY DI AT 70; WRER TIED TO TENNSEE

Gay worked a variety of jobs over the years although not too much is known about his history outsi of his ary work. Like Gay’s story, the film is about the directn that a fay aims to head to and how well is able to move forward life.

The work of William Gay shows that he is a unique wrer whose works are reflective of the Amerin South.

In a lerary voice that is both origal and powerfully unsettlg, William Gay tells the story of Nathan Wer, a young and headstrong Tennsee rpenter who lost his father years ago to a human evil that is greater and closer at hand than any the boy n image - until he learns of first-hand. Gay's remarkable but novel, The Long Home, is also the story of Amber Rose, a betiful young woman forced to live beneath that evil who regniz even as a child that Nathan is her first and last chance at pe. ’s grandson, is pleased wh the old man’s homeg, but Flemg’s life is soon to reen down an unpredictable path hewn by the betiful Raven Lee the great Southern tradn of Flkner, Styron, and Cormac McCarthy, William Gay wields a prose as evotive and lh as the hnted and humid world picts.

CELEBRATG WILLIAM GAY

William Gay expertly sets the nflicted characters agast lh backuntry scenery and fi our moral logic as we grow to love them for the weight of their human 2009 film, That Eveng Sun, was based on the short story I Hate to See That Eveng Sun Go Down. Gay maps out a landspe of love and ath, explorg the terra where a person's love of life teracts wh their fear of the dark unknown. What follows is an adventure through the Harrik, an eerie backwoods filled wh tangled roads, sted machery, and eccentric squatters—old men, wch, and fai among them—who both shield and imperil Tyler as he ns for his poetic, hntg prose, William Gay rewr the l of the gothic fairytale while explorg the classic Southern them of good and evil.

William Gay is well known for his fictn but he is also wily published wh his says, mostly alg wh mic, and his memoirs. A stirrg lerary rendn of Tennsee’s famed Curse of the Bell Wch, Ltle Sister Death skillfully to the le between Southern Gothic and horror, and further cements William Gay’s legacy as not only one of the South’s ft wrers, but among the bt that Amerin lerature has to offer.

Ten years after was first announced, Dzanc Books is proud to liver the lost novel om a master of the Southern Gothic―the work William Gay fans have anticipated for a Edgewater is a harbger of doom. Hound at every turn by sms, vigilant, grievo loss, and unspeakable vlence, Edgewater navigat the long road home, searchg for a place that may be nothg but as “a seemgly effortls storyteller” by the New York Tim Book Review and “a wrer of strikg talent” by the Chigo Tribune, William Gay, wh this long-awaed novel, secur his place alongsi Flkner, O’Connor, and McCarthy as one of the greatt novelists the Southern Gothic tradn.

BT OF WILLIAM GAY

Published by The Universy of Wt Alabama’s Livgston his last posthumo novel, William Gay has offered admirable homage to Mark Twa's Huckleberry Fn. Every hardscrabble thg we have e to expect om Gay li this novel, cludg an offbeat and dark humor. The book clus a preface by JM Whe, and nclus wh a qutn and answer wh the team of edors that worked on the by his signature skill and bare-knuckled sight, this llectn is a mt-read for William Gay vote and fans of Southern short fictn.

WILLIAM GAY NET WORTH, AGE, HEIGHT, WEIGHT, WIFE, WIKI-B, FAY 2023

As a rult he end up as the steward for the William Gay archive and has worked wh a team of William's iends and fans to prepare the massive amount of material the archive for publitn. As one of the edors of the revered mancripts of William Gay, I am que proud to be volved wh sendg a new flock of William’s tal to fly brilliantly about the world. She was privileged to spend time wh William Gay and his dog Knuckl so was a joy to work on unravelg and transcribg some of William's handwrten mancripts.

She wrote her master cril this on the supernatural elements on William Gay’s body of work and sce that time has worked wh the William Gay Archive providg edorial assistance to publish his posthumo works. Her advocy wh the William Gay Archive has led her to promote southern thors and lerature through her blog. 29, 2012William Gay, a self-tght novelist om ral Tennsee who emerged om obscury his late 50s wh crilly praised books the Southern Gothic style, died last Thursday at his home, a log b Hohenwald, southwt of Nashville.

WILLIAM GAY

Gay’s most recent publisher, MacAdam/ son of a sharecropper who spent much of his workg life blue-llar jobs, Mr. Gay wrote about stic Tennsee wh an si observer’s eye for lol lor and a hyperbolist’s light regnal idsyncrasi. Gay created a hometown for his fiercely eccentric, furly motivated or morally challenged characters — Ackerman’s Field, Tenn.

Gay wrote “The Paperhanger, ” a short story about a man who killed a ltle girl bee she had looked at him funny. Gay’s prose, not exactly purple, was often ght wh mythic ronance — that serpent, for example — which sued the amb parabl of good and evil that drew him.

WILLIAM GAY (THOR)

Gay to the readg world beyond lerary journals, he created a battle between Dallas Hard, a malevolent bootlegger, and Nathan Wer, the young rpenter Hard hir to build a honky-tonk on the property he has taken over om s crippled owner. Gay’s imagatn, ” Richard Bernste wrote The New York Tim Book Review about “Provc of Night, ” “giv this book s nsirable narrative power but also mak far-fetched, termtently zany, somethg about four-fifths Flkner wh ‘The Omen’ fillg the rt.

“Gay succsfully this form’s abily to unsettle rears, forcg them to see anew darker aspects of humany.

AUTHOR WILLIAM GAY DI AT 70

A rear om a young age, William Gay was troduced to the work of the novelist Thomas Wolfe by a high school teacher, and he disvered the Sig paperback edns of tl by Southern wrers like Flannery O’Connor that would lor his own fictn.

WILLIAMGAY

Gay said of a llectn of O’Connor’s short stori an terview last year wh the Tennsee Lerary Project, an archive at Middle Tennsee State Universy.

WILLIAM GAY WAS NEVER TOO BY FOR LIFE’S SMALLER MOMENTS

Gay had bee a full-time wrer, but as a figure on the lerary scene, ved to wrers’ nferenc and llege mp, he was a stranger a strange land. And Chris; two dghters, Lee Gay Warren and Lra Shapiro; a brother, Cody; eight grandchildren; and four step-grandchildren.

’ ” A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 22 of the New York edn wh the headle: William Gay Di at 70; Wrer Tied to Tennsee.

BOOK REVIEW: WILLIAM GAY’S GREATNS LIV ON POSTHUMO PUBLITN

The are some well-known facts William Gay’s official bgraphy: that he lived a b the woods, that he didn’t e email, that he worked nstctn his whole life until someone fally noticed he was a great wrer. As a late-life lerary succs who didn’t attend creative-wrg programs or pay for profsnal workshops, Gay symbolized the hop of stgglg wrers, pecially ral on. William Gay’s ath last week of heart failure sent tremors through the muny of wrers and rears Tennsee and beyond, people who loved him as a iend and as a wrer.

Today we also proudly publish here another excerpt om William Gay’s forthg novel, The Lost Country.

Gay provid the excerpts 2009, as panns to a long terview he gave Chapter 16, but we chose to publish only one of them at the time, holdg the others rerve to n nnectn wh some other news Gay’s life—a big award, perhaps, or the announcement of a publitn date for the new book.

THE WUNRKAMMER OF WILLIAM GAY’S THE LOST COUNTRY

We clu one of them here today, regnizg that the bt person to provi the last word on William Gay’s geo e of language and profound unrstandg of human nature is William Gay himself. Every obuary I’ve read about William Gay—as was the se wh every newspaper or magaze profile I read about William while he was alive—featur his time the rpentry tras, particularly as a drywall hanger, almost as promently as featur his prodig gifts and acplishments as a wrer. Who knows, maybe five hundred years om now, some misguid but clamoro band of send-tier scholars will waste time batg who really wrote the books of William Gay bee, God knows, a drywall hanger om Hohenwald, Tennsee, wh ltle formal tn, would have been pable of dog so himself.

Potg out that William Gay never went to llege is as els an exercise as potg out that Bill Gat never fished.

At nferenc and ftivals, I liked to thk of William Gay as Home Base a strange childhood game of tag; we uld always fd each other and lose all the disfort of tryg to rema rdial to strangers. The first words William Gay ever said to me occurred what appeared to be a ballroom si the public library Nashville. When William Gay me to vis, soon beme apparent that there was no book my llectn that he hadn’t read.

Wh his long curly hair, ep-set ey, weathered face, and his entirely hont and unaffected gaze, William Gay stck me as one of the most formidable people I’d ever met.

That sound, to me, like a William Gay story: straightforward, unsentimental honty about love and heartbreak. Over a year ago, I asked William Gay if he would nsir g seven hours om Hohenwald to Lln Memorial Universy Harrogate, Tennsee, to give a readg, and he said he would. William Gay’s work ronat wh an Appalachian sensibily—the lament and yearng of fiercely pennt characters, whether evil or nocent, who wrtle their environment as much as their history, or circumstance, or fate—renred his eloquent, speakerly storytellg.