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Marlin Barton is the first recipient of the Capote Prize for short fiction. He teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He also teaches creative writing in a program for juvenile offenders called Writing Our Stories, created by the Alabama Writers’ Forum.
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Children of Dust shows how the unsettled questions from the past carry forward, creating searches for answers generations later
The breaks and turns give a vivid sense of how history is both made and survived.
With riveting prose, Barton proves he is a master storyteller
An immersive story that asks the hardest questions and answers them with powerful and propulsive historical fiction.
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No Place for Pilgrims
No Place for Pilgrims: Solving the Murder of William Moore, the Last Cold Civil Rights Case By Mike Marshall NewSouth Books, 2025 Hardcover: $34.95 Reviewed by Lesa Carnes Shaul Sometimes, when we are young and idealistic and full of dreams and promise, we imagine ourselves becoming the kind of adult who will make a difference, who will leave a mark, who will change the world. Then we move inexorably through time, and life and the general everydayness of existence intervene. We get tired. We get old. We assume that a younger generation, just as full of dreams and goals as we once were, will take up the mantle of righteousness we shrugged off under the burden of careers, mortgages, family obligations, disillusionment. When Mike Marshall was fourteen, he embarked on what initially seemed like the fulfillment of a common school assignment: a research project on civil rights for his ninth-grade civics class. We know these projects; we’ve all done something of the sort at some point in our academic journeys. The bicentennial year of 1976 [...]
