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Greg Bottoms
Set in Tidewater, Virginia, in the 1980s and early 1990s, this volume documents the violent, drug-addled descent of the author’s brother, Michael, into paranoid schizophrenia. The account enables the reader…
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Noted as one of Esquire’s top five books of 2000, this collection of powerful stories offers deeply etched portraits of a group of disparate people in the Shenandoah Valley who…
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This is a prose collection about ordinary lives in the ever-changing, postmodern South. A teenage killer ends up a smiling adult bridesmaid. A conservative Christian couple tells the story of…
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An innovative, hybrid work of literary nonfiction, Lowest White Boy takes its title from Lyndon Johnson’s observation during the civil rights era: If you can convince the lowest white man…
In Spiritual American Trash, Greg Bottoms goes beyond the examination of eight outsider artists and inhabits the spirit of their work and stories in engaging vignettes. From the janitor who…
Beginning in Georgia with a trip to Finster’s famous Paradise Gardens , this title provides a look into the lives and visionary works of some of Finster’s contemporaries: the self-taught…
Looking at the lives and works of some of Finster’s contemporaries: the self-taught evangelical artists whose beliefs and neuvres occupy the gray area between madness and Christian ecstasy, this book…
Greg Oliver
Author Greg Oliver takes a peek into historical documents of the stars, from Wayne Gretzky to Lou Nanne to Elmer Moose Vasko. Culled from the archives of Allan Stitt, one…