Bret Lott's Books
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Reed's BeachHugh and Laura Walker could never have anticipated that the single greatest source of joy in their lives could so suddenly fill them with such...Read More -
The Man Who Owned VermontWhen Rick Wheeler's wife walks out on him, he nearly drowns in despair. So the RC Cola salesman throws himself into work -- setting sales records,...Read More
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A Stranger's HouseFor a long time, Claire and Tom Templeton have wished in vain for a child. What they have instead is a house, a charming old Cape that is their...Read More
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Dream of Old LeavesBret Lott's powerful, insightful stories illuminate the everyday episodes that move us -- husbands and wives, parents and children, friends and...Read More
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Fathers, Sons, & BrothersExploring three generations of the men in his family -- his father and his two uncles, his own two brothers, and his two sons -- Bret Lott spins a...Read More
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The Week Magazine, January 13, 2013
...life in a crumbling English castle, she finds happiness despite the household's state ofnot-so-genteel poverty. Jewel by Bret Lott (Washington Square Press, $14).Jewel is the happy matriarch of a hard-working Mississippi family and already the mother...
Bookslut, November 4, 2012
...one of the sections in the anthology. In the first section of the anthology, "The Flash Nonfiction Form," Bret Lott notes, "There ought to be an explosion of recognition, a burst of self-awareness that gives my reader the understanding that these few...
The Pulse, October 25, 2012
...Tate, as well as poets Philip Levine and Charles Simic, Guggenheim fellow Stanley Plumly and Oprah selection novelist Bret Lott. Jackson also brings writers from abroad including Germany, Slovenia, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, England and the Czech Republic....
Time Out Chicago, October 17, 2012
...what happens in The Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction published by Rose Metal Press. According to contributor Bret Lott, the genre is like inverted Russian nesting dolls, where “we find nested inside that smallest of selves a larger self…until...
Cascade Patch, September 22, 2012
...Toni Morrison October: All I Did was Shoot My Man by Walter Mosley November: The Hunt Club by Bret Lott December: Come share your best read of the year! 33.74074 -84.420449 primary September 24, 2012 / October 22, 2012 / November 26, 2012 /...
Charleston City Paper, August 28, 2012
...Marjory Wentworth was teaching poetry at SOA at the time and helped Graudin develop her lyrical voice. Author Bret Lott was also involved in mentoring this writer, though he says she didn't need much help. "Ryan was one of those students — there aren't...
Charleston City Paper, August 1, 2012
...From a book about human trafficking to classics like Franny and Zooey, their choices just might surprise you. Bret Lott, author of Ancient Highway, Jewel Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-1945 by Neill Lochery Mockingbird: A...
The Week Magazine, January 13, 2013
...life in a crumbling English castle, she finds happiness despite the household's state ofnot-so-genteel poverty. Jewel by Bret Lott (Washington Square Press, $14).Jewel is the happy matriarch of a hard-working Mississippi family and already the mother...
Island Packet, November 30, 2012
...As author Bret Lott describes it, not a whole lot of "stuff" happens in his novels. That's not to say his novels are staid or boring. But it's not what you...
Cascade Patch, September 22, 2012
...Toni Morrison October: All I Did was Shoot My Man by Walter Mosley November: The Hunt Club by Bret Lott December: Come share your best read of the year! 33.74074 -84.420449 primary September 24, 2012 / October 22, 2012 / November 26, 2012 /...
Ezine Articles, September 20, 2012
...recording our lives and giving voice to our struggles, our hopes, and our dreams. In the words of Bret Lott in "Towards a Definition of Creative Nonfiction," Lott writes, "[Writing] is, in one form or another, for better and worse, in triumph and...
AllVoices, September 1, 2012
...Gemstone or jewellery *Jewel (novel), by Bret Lott * Jewel (film), a 2001 television film *Jewel (comics), a superheroine in the Marvel universe *Jewel (supermarket), a U.S. grocery store chain *Jewel Food Stores (Australia) an Australian...
Charleston City Paper, August 28, 2012
...Marjory Wentworth was teaching poetry at SOA at the time and helped Graudin develop her lyrical voice. Author Bret Lott was also involved in mentoring this writer, though he says she didn't need much help. "Ryan was one of those students — there aren't...
Charleston City Paper, August 20, 2012
...the book-banning hearing," Green said, referring to the fall 2011 controversy over the inclusion of local author Bret Lott's novel The Hunt Club in school libraries. "That was really interesting, with the librarian getting up and advocating for the books...
