Gérald Préher and Xavier Le Brun, Foreword
Frédérique Spill and Randall Wilhelm, Introduction
Brian Railsback, From Cliffside to Casualties:
Ron Rash’s Apprenticeship in Depth and Darkness
Françoise Palleau-Papin, “Their Ancient, Glittering Eyes”: A Story of Hieratic Vision
CK Walker, “A Wound So Deep and Ragged”:
The Vulnerable Body of Appalachia in Ron Rash’s Short Stories
Frédérique Spill, Light Effects in Burning Bright
Gérald Préher, “A sure terrain, . . . a permanent landscape of the heart”:
Ron Rash’s Poetics of Textual Space
Randi Adams, Corpse Birds and Cooling Boards:
Appalachian Deathways in Ron Rash’s Short Stories
Jessica Cory, Blue Balls:
Masculinity and Hypothermia in the Short Stories of Ron Rash
Patrycja Kurjatto-Renard, Men and Women in Ron Rash’s Civil War Stories
in Something Rich and Strange
Marie-Christine Agosto, Reading, Seeing, Remembering:
Aesthetic Experience in Ron Rash’s Stories in Nothing Gold Can Stay
Marcel Arbeit, Good Luck, Bad Luck: Ron Rash’s “Cherokee”
Erin M. Presley, Reconciling Literacy and Loss in Ron Rash’s Nothing Gold Can Stay
Randall Wilhelm, “A place where all manner of strange occurrences were possible”:
The Marvelous Real in Ron Rash’s In the Valley
Martha Eads, “The Epicenter of Who I Am”: Ron Rash’s Roots in Aho, North Carolina
Bénédicte Meillon, “Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth”;
An Interview with Ron Rash
Frédérique Spill, In the Valley: A Conversation with Ron Rash
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“French I”: A Story
Frédérique Spill, Randall Wilhelm and Gérald Préher, Bibliography