Poe Ballantine's work has appeared in "The Atlantic Monthly, The
Sun, Kenyon Review, " and "The Coal City Review." In addition to
garnering numerous Pushcart and O. Henry nominations, Mr.
Ballantine's work has also been included in "The Best American
Short Stories 1998" and "The Best American Essays 2006"
anthologies.
Cheryl Strayed is the author of the number-one "New York Times"
bestseller "Wild, " the "New York Times" bestseller "Tiny Beautiful
Things, " and the novel "Torch""Wild" was chosen by Oprah Winfrey
as her first selection for Oprah's Book Club 2.0 and optioned for
film by Reese Witherspoon's production company, Pacific Standard.
Strayed has written the "Dear Sugar" column on TheRumpus.net since
March 2010. Her writing has appeared in "The Best American Essays,
the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post Magazine, Vogue,
Allure, The Missouri Review, Creative Nonfiction, The Sun" and
elsewhere. Her books have been translated into twenty-six languages
around the world.
Poe Ballantine is brilliant, sensitive, unique, and universal.
Reading his work is inspiring, agitating, and invigorating. He is
utterly transparent on the page, a rare thing. He's like a bird
that's almost but not quite extinct. This is his best book ever. --
Cheryl Strayed, author of "Wild"
Poe Ballantine's prose cuts right to the bone (the one that's stuck
in America's throat), but manages to preserve not only the sweetest
meat but the barbecue sauce, as well. Mark Twain would have admired
his wit, and had Oscar Wilde read him, he would have bought an old
Ford pickup and moved to Nebraska the day he got out of the
slammer, hoping that some of his style rubbed off on him. A book
without style is like a swan without feathers--it's just another
plucked chicken--but this new one of Ballantine's is in its funky
way majestic as it zigzags downstream. Poe Ballantine is the most
soulful, insightful, funny, and altogether luminous "under-known"
writer in America. He knocks my socks off, even when I'm barefoot.
-- Tom Robbins, author of "Villa Incognito"
Ballantine's writing is secure insecurity at its best, muscular and
minimal, self-deprecating on the one hand, full of the self's soul
on the other." -- Lauren Slater, "Lying"
If the delights of either Poe Ballantine or Chadron, Nebraska were
a secret, that is over now. Love and Terror on the Howling Plains
of Nowhere is an unprecedented combination of all of the following:
true crime page-turner, violently funny portrait of a tiny Western
town, field guide to saving a bilingual marriage and raising an
autistic child, sutra on living with open mind and big heart. Many
of the sentences start on earth and end somewhere in beat-poet
heaven. Ballantine comes ever closer to being my favorite creative
nonfiction writer and this is why. -- Marion Winik, Above Us Only
Sky. The Glen Rock Book of the Dead and NPR correspondent
Book club pick for Rumpus book club August, 2103
Poe Ballantine essa
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