Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3108496 in Books
• Published on: 2001-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 152 pages

Customer Reviews

Writers on the Storm
Writers on the Storm: Stories, Observations, and Essays
by Tim Peeler, Carter Monroe, and Robert Canipe

One of my favorite living authors, Carter Monroe, has several stories in this collection. Monroe catches the flavor and humor of small town Southern living. Being from the provinces myself, I can vouch that his characters are true to life. The American short story is in good hands with Peeler, Monroe and Canipe.

SOUTHERN COOKIN
In WRITERS ON THE STORM, the reader encounters three very different voices/perspectives that are nevertheless headed in the same general direction. The book begins with the realistic and often rowdy short fiction of Robert Canipe. Canipe breathes life into blue collar protagonists that include a convenience store robber, a failed son, and a paroled convict. It is almost scary to realize the depth of his understanding of these characters.

Carter Monroe follows with several lengthy essays in which he reflects on provincial life in Eastern North Carolina. The analytical quality of this work is outstanding and the tongue-in-cheek humor a reward for the reader.

The book concludes with a number of short essays by Tim Peeler, the majority of which study the idea of experiential education. This is accomplished as he recounts his version of local history in a Western NC county.

It is remarkable how well these diverse genres and styles mesh. You know these characters; you may be them.

Writer's On The Storm....Reinventing Classicism
What makes Writers On The storm a significant tribute to Modern
literature is not so much the inventive and expressive prose
style of all three contributing Authors, though is indeed present. Rather it is the fact that amid a confusing and often baffling array of hypertextual nonsense, on the one hand, and 'pop' sensationalism as it proports to some 'Avante Gaurde'
and exhibitionist approach to literary fashion, on the other,
which are the modern standard in so many published works these days...That as apposed to the ways and means a kind of hyperbolic fashion which has become the norm, this book in general and in particular with regaurd the last author Tim Peeler, has reasserted the need for a the kind of 'thoughtful
creative calm' present only in the form of the Essay Proper.

Whereas it is true that individual works of nonfiction in this book take on a more narrative charecter, build themselves in
in their concept and thematic appropriation in what tends to be
a highly anecdotal manner, they still reassert those 'classical'
and thorough going aspects appropriate to what one considers
as apposed to NON FICTION PERSE...the Essay Proper. In an age
as intellectually divorced from serious literary thought of course, there are quite a few people capable of only a more
direct and visceral and entertaining assessment of human values
and human existence. This is a failure of the Age which we live in and not at all one of this wonderful collection.