William Gays Bibliography
Novels:
The Long Home, MacMurray and Beck, Denver, CO, 1999
The Long Home, Faber and Faber, London, England, 1999
Provinces of Night, Doubleday, New York, NY, 2000
Provinces of Night, Faber and Faber, London, England, 2000
Provinzen der Nacht, Argon Verlag GmbH, Berlin, Germany, 2001
Twilight, MacAdam/Cage, San Francisco, CA, 2006
Twilight, Faber and Faber, London, England, 2007
Little Sister Death, Dzanc Books, Ann Arbor, MI, 2015
Stoneburner, Anomolaic Press, Brush Creek, TN, 2018
The Lost County, Dzanc Books, Ann Arbor, MI, 2018
Fugitives of the Heart, Livingston Press, U. of West Alabama,
Livingston, AL, 2020
Novellas:
The Paperhanger, the Doctor’s Wife and the Child Who Went into the Abstract, The Book Source, Hohenwald, TN, 1999
Come Home, Come Home, It’s Suppertime, The Book Source, Hohenwald, TN, 2000
Short Story Collections:
I Hate to See that Evening Sun Go Down, The Free Press, New York, NY, 2002
Wittgenstein’s Lolita and The Iceman, Wild Dog Press, Brush Creek, TN 2006
Time Done Been Won’t Be No More, Wild Dog Press, Brush Creek, TN 2010
Stories from the Attic, Dzanc Books, Ann Arbor, MI, 2022
Short Story Publications:
Those Deep Elm Brown’s Ferry Blues, (Missouri Review, Fall l998)
I Hate to See that Evening Sun Go Down, (Georgia Review, Fall 1998)
Closure and Roadkill on the Life’s Highway, (Atlantic Monthly, November l999)
The Paperhanger, (Harpers, February 2000)
Death in the Woods, (GQ, November 2000)
My Hand Is Just Fine Where It Is, (Oxford American, November/December l999)
The Crimper, (Harpers, October 2000)
Good Til Now, (Oxford American, January/February 2001)
Charting the Territories of the Red, (Southern Review, Spring 2001)
“Homecoming” in Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe II: Anthology of Southern Writers, Edited by Sonny Brewer, MacAdam Cage, 2003.
Wreck on the Highway, (Chattahoochee Review, 2005)
Where Will You Go When Your Skin Cannot Contain You?, (Tin House, 2007)
Articles:
Sweet Songs Never Last Too Long, (Oxford American, Music Issue, July August l999)
Queen of the Haunted Dell, (Oxford American, October 2000)
Sitting on Top of the World, (Oxford American Music Issue, 2000)
Time Done Been Won’t Be No More, (Oxford American, July/August Music Issue, 2001)
Crossroads Blues, (Oxford American 2002, website only)
Blind Willie McTell (Oxford American, Summer, 2005)
Calves Howling at the Moon, (Oxford American, Fall, 2005)
The Man in the Attic: A Memoir, (Paste, June/July, 2006)
The Banjo Man, (Oxford American, Music Issue, Summer, 2006)
Fumbling for the Keys to the Doors of Perception: A memoir, mostly true but with some stretchers, as Mark Twain once said,
Don’t Quit Your Day Job: Acclaimed Authors and the Day Jobs They Quit, Edited by Sonny Brewer, M P Publishing Limited, (2010)
Introduction, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, Illustrations by Katherine Hardy, London, The Folio Society, 2011.
Reading the South(Paperback Edition), (Chattahoochee Review, Volume XXXI, Number 3, Winter, 2011)
Anthologies:
New Stories from The South, The Year’s Best , Edited by Shannon Ravenel, 1998
New Stories from The South, The Year’s Best, Edited by Shannon Ravenel, 1999
New Stories from The South, The Year’s Best, Edited by Shannon Ravenel, 2000
Best New American Voices, Edited by Tobias Wolff, 2000
New Stories from The South, The Year’s Best, Edited by Shannon Ravenel, 2001
O’Henry Prize Stories, Edited by Larry Dark, 2001
Best Mystery Stories, Edited by Lawrence Block, 2001
Best Music Writing, Edited by Nick Hornby, 2001
New Stories from The South, The Year’s Best, Edited by Shannon Ravenel, 2002
Stories From the Blue Moon Café, Edited by Sonny Brewer, 2002
Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe II, Edited by Sonny Brewer, 2003
They Write Among Us, Edited by Jim Dees, 2003
Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe III, Edited by Sonny Brewer, 2004
Anchor Book of Modern Short Stories, Edited by Ben Marcus, 2004
Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe IV, Edited by Sonny Brewer, 2004
Best of the South: The Best of the Second Decade, Selected by Anne Tyler, 2005
A Cast of Characters and Other Stories, Edited by Sonny Brewer, 2006
Best American Short Stories, Edited by Steven King, 2007
Best American Mystery Stories, Edited by Carl Hiaasen, 2007
The Surreal South, Edited by Pinckney Benedict, 2007
The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction, Edited by Joyce Carol Oates and Christopher R. Beha, 2008
Grit Lit: A Rough South Reader, Edited by Brian Carpenter and Tom Franklin, 2012
Editor:
With Suzanne Kingsbury, The Alumni Grill, MacAdam/Cage, 2004.
Interviews:
William Gay offers a piercing portrait of a vanishing rural culture: Interview by Alden Mudge, BookPage, January, 2001.
Out of Nowhere: After decades of laboring in complete obscurity, Middle Tennessee author William Gay has finally found literary acclaim, by Clay Risen: Nashville Scene, January 16, 2003, p. 23 – 27.
A Natural Talent: Author William Gay, snug amid woods of his native Hohenwald, reflects on lifelong love of words. Julie Gillen, The Daily Herald, Sunday, March 7, 2004, 1D, 4D. Columbia, TN.
An Interview with William Gay by Georgia Afton, Water-Stone Review: A Literary Annual, Volume 7, Fall 2004, p. 42-59.
Monday Interview: William Gay, Things I’d Rather be Doing, 3.26.2007
Bookmark with Don Noble, Interview with William Gay, Produced by The Center for Public Television at the University of Alabama (c) 2007 by University of Alabama Center for Public Television (DVD)
Interview: William Gay, Tennessee Literary Project, MTSU, Conducted by Kenny Torrella, April 13, 2008, www.mtsu.edu/tnlitproj
Inventing Tennessee’s own Yoknapatawpha County by Clay Risen, 10/2009, Tennessee Committee for the Humanities www.chapter16.org
William Gay: Featured Writer of the Month, November, 2009, Oxford America www.oxfordamerican.org/interviews/2009/nov/04/featured- writer-month/ Positively William Gay, Interviewed by Anthony Scarlati, Nashville Arts Magazine, December 2009, p. 27 – 31.
Ackerman’s Field and Lewis County: Lewis County author William Gay’s stories to hit the big screen. By Jordan Blie, Lewis County Herald, January 7, 2010. p. 1, p. 5.
Awards:
1999 William Peden Prize
1999 James A. Michener Memorial Prize
2002 Guggenheim Fellowship
2007 United States Artists Ford Foundation Fellow
2009 Writer of the Year, Tennessee Literary Association
2010 Grand Priz de Litterature Policiere (for Twilight)