Scott McClanahan’s Stories V!

I am going to say this upfront: With Stories V! Scott McClanahan has officially wedged himself into the canon. But which canon. The American Southern oral canon? Yes. The small press indie fiction canon? Yes. The Appalachian hipster canon. That too. McClanahan has always delivered. His first collection, Stories, described the real down-and-out American south beautifully. Stories II, true to its sequential title, continued and strengthened McClanahan’s role as an official voice of the South. Then comes this strangely non-sequentially titled Stories V! to solidify McClanahan as the official voice of the polished (but not too polished), clever (but not too clever) oral story telling southern elite.

You know what, instead of wasting your time with a full review, just watch this clip of Mr. McClanahan reading live. Then buy all three of his collections and read them aloud with the author’s voice in your head. Copy him. Become his words. He’d want it that way.

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Caleb J. Ross

Caleb J. Ross has been published widely, both online and in print. He graduated with a degree in English Lit and a minor in creative writing from Emporia State University in 2005. He is the author of Charactered Pieces: stories (OW Press), Stranger Will: a novel (Otherworld Publications, 2011), As a Machine and Parts (Aqueous Books, 2011) and, I Didn’t Mean to Be Kevin: a novel (Black Coffee Press, 2011).

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