The Sarah Book by ScottMcclanahan Paperback, 150 Pages, Published 2017 by Tyrant Books ISBN-13: 978-0-9885183-9-1, ISBN: 0-9885183-9-2
"McClanahan's prose is miasmic, dizzying, repetitive. A rushing river of words that reflects the chaos and humanity of the place from which he hails. He writes in an elliptical fever dream so contagious that slowing down is not an option. It would be like putting a doorstop in front of a speeding train. This is not a book you savor. It is one you inhale.” The New York TimesPart memoir, part hillbilly history, part dream, McClanahan em ..."
Hill William by ScottMcclanahan Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2013 by Tyrant Books ISBN-13: 978-0-9850235-5-3, ISBN: 0-9850235-5-4
""You can tell McClanahan feels something when he writes and when he lives. He wants you to feel something too."--The Huffington Post"I walked up to the side of the mountain like I used to do when I was a little boy. I looked out over Rainelle and watched it shine. The coal trucks and the logging trucks were still gunning it through town. They were still clear cutting the mountains and cutting the coal from the ground. Then I heard my mo ..."
Stories V!(1st Edition) by ScottMcclanahan Paperback, 140 Pages, Published 2011 by Holler Presents ISBN-13: 978-0-9832589-6-4, ISBN: 0-9832589-6-1
"The final installment of Scott McClanahan's collections of short stories, following "Stories" and "Stories II.""
"This anthology collects original writing and art by novelists, poets, and academics about their pets, including a killer chihuahua, a catatonic toy poodle, a contraband cat, a backyard full of endangered desert tortoises, five forgotten parakeets, and a skinny ex-racehorse named Joe. From legends like Ann Beattie and Christine Schutt to cult figures like Scott McClanahan and Tao Lin, this anthology collects writing from some of today’s ..."
Crapalachia A Biography of Place by ScottMcclanahan Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2013 by Two Dollar Radio Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-1-937512-03-3, ISBN: 1-937512-03-7
""McClanahan's prose is miasmic, dizzying, repetitive. A rushing river of words that reflects the chaos and humanity of the place from which he hails. [McClanahan] aims to lasso the moon... He is not a writer of half-measures. The man has purpose. This is his symphony, every note designed to resonate, to linger.""New York Times Book Review" ""Crapalachia" is the genuine article: intelligent, atmospheric, raucously funny and utterly wrenc ..."
""Those who are creating the modern composition authentically are naturally only of importance when they are dead because by that time the modern composition having become past is classified and the description of it is classical." --Gertrude Stein "One hundred years from now everyone in this anthology will be dead. According to Stein that means Alt Lit will finally be considered 'classic.'" --Christopher Higgs Featuring work by Sam Pink ..."
The Sarah Book by ScottMcclanahan 150 Pages, Published 2015 by Tyrant Books ISBN-13: 978-0-9885183-5-3, ISBN: 0-9885183-5-X
"McClanahan is the only real successor we have to Breece D'J Pancake. Old-fashioned storytelling from modern Appalachia."
" Books, beer, and pony flesh. Featuring new work by Scott McClanahan, Cody Goodfellow, Violet LeVoit, Dena Rash Guzman, Kevin Maloney, and Lucy Tiven, along with collages by Kevin Sampsell, book and beer reviews, and a new interview with Stephen Graham Jones."
Stories(1st Edition) by ScottMcclanahan Paperback, 146 Pages, Published 2008 by Six Gallery Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9810091-2-4, ISBN: 0-9810091-2-3
"A first-time book by filmmaker and native West Virginian Scott McClanahan."
" "Scott McClanahan is a powerful, exceptional writer, and the overall effect of reading his deceptively simple stories is like getting hit in the head by a champion cage fighter cranked up on meth that was cooked in a trailer without running water in some Kentucky backwoods where people sing murder ballads to their children to put them to sleep." -DONALD RAY POLLOCK, author of The Devil All the Time "He might be one of the great southe ..."
"This anthology collects original writing and art by novelists, poets, and academics about their pets, including a killer chihuahua, a catatonic toy poodle, a contraband cat, a backyard full of endangered desert tortoises, five forgotten parakeets, and a skinny ex-racehorse named Joe. Edited by Jordan Castro with contributions by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Ann Beattie, Raegan Bird, Blake Butler, CAConrad, Ryan C. K. Choi, Michael W. Clune, Pa ..."
Crapalachia A Biography of a Place by ScottMcclanahan 192 Pages, Published 2013 by Two Dollar Radio ISBN-13: 978-1-937512-12-5, ISBN: 1-937512-12-6
"NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION 2010 '5 UNDER 35' SELECTION. * NPR BEST
BOOKS ... NPR FREQUENCIES A new non-fiction journal of artful essays! ...
NewPages VOLUME 1 / FALL 2012, NOW AVAILABLE! Essays by Blake Butler,
Joshua Cohen, Tracy Rose Keaton, Scott McClanahan; Interview with Anne
Carson."
"From the essay "Open Sesame" from Joshua Cohen: "A writer stands outside a story yelling, 'Open Sesame!' and the story, as if a seed, opens. And treasure is found inside. That treasure, of course, is just another story, and it all begins again."From an interview with Anne Carson: "comfort or the lack of it is not the point, thinking is the pointto cause people to think is not easyto cause myself to think is not easylack of ease generate ..."
Stories II by ScottMcclanahan Paperback, 156 Pages, Published 2009 by Six Gallery Press ISBN-13: 978-1-926616-14-8, ISBN: 1-926616-14-6
"The sequel to Scott McClanahan's acclaimed earlier collection of stories about West Virginia."
""["The Incantations of Daniel Johnston"] captures Johnston's visionsboth artistic and hallucinatoryin an intensely colorful cartoonish style and vivid recurring images: frogs, cascades of pills, volcanoes, eyeballs of many varieties."John Williams, "New York Times Book Review" "You ve never read anything like "The Incantations of Daniel Johnston," a poetic, frenetic dive through the mind of the singer/songwriter. As graphic novel biogra ..."
"Joyland is an online literary magazine that curates fiction regionally. Praised for its unique approach by Time Out, the Atlantic, and the CBC, Joyland now brings its best stories into print with Retro Vol. 1. From writers both emerging and acclaimed come short stories about spontaneous combustion on a dance floor, love affairs with predators, a very bad day for a purchase display consultant and what happens when a man decides he wants ..."
Pig Dog(2nd Edition) by Scott A. Mcclanahan Paperback, 170 Pages, Published 2016 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN-13: 978-1-5399-9391-9, ISBN: 1-5399-9391-4