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CLYDE EDGERTON'S BIBLIOGRAPHY

1980-1998

I.

BOOKS

II.

CHAPBOOKS (and other small publications)

III.

PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS

IV.

ANTHOLOGY (and other larger book) APPEARANCES

V.

JUVENILE AND EARLY WRITINGS

VI.

INTERVIEWS

VII.

ARTICLES ABOUT CLYDE

VIII.

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

IX.

MUSIC (Sound Recordings)

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I. BOOKS:

RANEY 1985

Raney, A Novel. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1985. Eleven printings through 1996. Printings one through eight have green binding with dust jacket in green and pink. Ninth printing has new binding of blue cloth and tan boards with redesigned yellow dust jacket. Tenth and eleventh printings have binding of black cloth and lavender boards, in gray, black, and peach dust jacket.

MASS MARKET PAPERBACK

Raney. New York: Ballantine Books; "First Ballantine Books Edition: May 1986." Twenty-three printings through 1998. Printings one through six have a yellow cover. All other printings beginning with the seventh have a pink cover.

TRADE PAPERBACK

Raney. New York: Ballantine Books, 1997.

BRITISH

Raney. London: Penguin Books Ltd, 1990 (lst British paperback edition).

TRANSLATION

Raney. Japanese translation, [1995].

PRE-PUBLICATION

''Unrevised Proof" of Raney, in light blue wraps, indicating publication date of March 1985. Bears date 1984 on title and copyright page. Last brief paragraph (p. 225) is typed and tipped in.

DRAMATIC VERSION

Script of play Raney, by John Justice from novel by Clyde Edgerton. World Premiere on Thursday, Feb. 22, 1990 at Cape Fear Regional Theatre, 1209 Hay St., Fayetteville, NC.

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WALKING ACROSS EGYPT 1987

Walking Across Egypt, A Novel. Chapel Hill, N. C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1987. Seven printings through 1997. First printing has "blue T-shirt" on page 164. All later printings substitute "Robert's shirt and tie" on page 164. The fifth printing is the first with any designation of printing sequence. Printings two through four must be distinguished by other means, primarily the varying colors of bindings and endpapers. Also, the second and third printings have a small black spot beneath the second reset line on p. 164, a blemish which was removed in the fourth printing.

MASS MARKET PAPERBACK

Walking Across Egypt. New York: Ballantine Books; "First Ballantine Books Edition: March 1988." Twelve printings through December 1993.

TRADE PAPERBACK

Walking Across Egypt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1997.

BRITISH

Walking Across Egypt. London: Jonathan Cape; First published in Great Britain, 1988. Hardback.

Walking Across Egypt. London: Penguin Books, Ltd, 1989. British paperback version.

PRE-PUBLICATION

Pre-publication version of Walking Across Egypt : "Corrected Proof" (changed in ink to "Uncorrected.") Soft binding. This the SCARCER of the TWO pre-publication versions.

Advance copy of Walking Across Egypt : Gatherings with partial tan backing with white label on front.

DRAMATIC VERSION

Script of play Walking Across Egypt, by John Justice from novel by Clyde Edgerton. World Premiere at Carolina Union Cabaret, Nov. 2-6, 1989.

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THE FLOATPLANE NOTEBOOKS 1988

The Floatplane Notebooks. Chapel Hill, N. C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1988. Two printings.

MASS MARKET PAPERBACK

The Floatplane Notebooks. New York: Ballantine Books; "First Ballantine Books Edition: November 1989." Nine printings through 1998.

TRADE PAPERBACK

The Floatplane Notebooks. New York: Ballantine Books, 1997.

BRITISH

The Floatplane Notebooks. London: Viking; First Published in Great Britain, 1989. Hardback.

The Floatplane Notebooks. London: Penguin Books, 1990. British Paperback Edition.

TRANSLATION

Notizen beim Bau eines Wasserflugzeugs, Deutsch von Benjamin Schwartz. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, 1991.

PRE-PUBLICATION

Pre-publication version of The Floatplane Notebooks: "Folded and gathered" stage softbound in slate blue covers (Advance copy). White labels on front and back.

DRAMATIC VERSIONS

Dramatic adaptation by Paul Fitzgerald and Jason Moore. Premiere Feb. 12-14, 1993, Northwestern University. The Fitzgerald and Moore adaptation also played at the Booth Playhouse in Charlotte, NC, Feb. 4-15, 1998. and in Fayetteville, NC at the Cape Fear Regional Theatre, April 17-May 3, 1998.

The Floatplane Notebooks; A Play for Radio, adapted by Richard Henzel. Radio Ensemble Players' production of Henzel's play was in December 1995.

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KILLER DILLER 1991

Killer Diller, A Novel. Chapel Hill. NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1991. Two printings.

MASS MARKET PAPERBACK

Killer Diller. New York: Ballantine Books; "First Ballantine Books Edition: March 1992." Seven printings through 1996.

TRADE PAPERBACK

Killer Diller. New York: Ballantine Books, 1996.

PRE-PUBLICATION

Pre-publication version ("folded and gathered" stage) of Killer Diller (Advance copy), softbound in bright red and yellow covers [November 1990], announcing February 1991 publication.

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IN MEMORY OF JUNIOR 1992

In Memory of Junior, A Novel. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1992.

MASS MARKET PAPERBACK

In Memory of Junior. New York: Ballantine Books; "First Ballantine Books Edition: January 1994."

TRADE PAPERBACK

In Memory of Junior . New York: Ballantine Books, 1996.

PRE-PUBLICATION

"Advance Uncorrected Proof" of In Memory of Junior, softbound in light green covers [June 1992], announcing October 1992 publication.

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REDEYE: A WESTERN 1995

Redeye: A Western. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1995.

PAPERBACK

Redeye: a Western. New York: Penguin books, 1996 [March].

PRE-PUBLICATION

"Advance Uncorrected Proof" of Redeye; A Western, softbound in tan and black covers [January 1995], announcing April 1995 publication.

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WHERE TROUBLE SLEEPS: A NOVEL 1997

Where Trouble Sleeps: A Novel. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1997. Two printings.

PAPERBACK

Where Trouble Sleeps: A Novel. New York: Ballantine Books, 1998. Includes "A Reader’s Guide."

PRE-PUBLICATION

"Advance Uncorrected Proof" of Where Trouble Sleeps. Softbound in tan and blue covers [Summer 1997], announcing tentative publication date of Sept. 19, 1997.

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II. CHAPBOOKS (and other small publications):

Understanding the Floatplane. Chapel Hill: The Mud Puppy Press, 1987. 500 numbered and signed copies.

Cold Black Peas. Chapel Hill: The Mud Puppy Press, 1990. 100 numbered and signed copies and 26 lettered and signed copies. With a flyer from Mud Puppy Press explaining that this (and 7 other chapbooks) was ''published and sold in conjunction with a reading held at Fearrington Village in Pittsboro, North Carolina" (October 19, 1990) under auspices of Gantt for Senate Campaign. All copies have typo last page of text: "kow" for "know.''

"Ground Level," Glimpses of the Rural Carolinas: Photographs by Rob Amberg/ Essay by Clyde Edgerton. Charlotte, NC: Spirit Square Center for the Arts, [1992], pp. 5-9.

Essay ["Is it cool?"] on September page, The Spirit Lives On, 1994 Bicentennial Observance Calendar, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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III. PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS:

1980

"Privacy," by Raney Basket [pseud.], Lyricist, Vol. XIV (Spring 1980), pp. 34-35. First published story.

"Natural Suspension," Just Pulp, Vol. III, No. 2 (Spring/Summer 1980), pp. 70-76. 1st complete short story written by CE, Dec. 1977 during Christmas break in Apex, NC. 1st story accepted for publication (by Thomas Rankin).

1981

"Looking at the Body," by Raney Basket as told to Clyde Edgerton, Lyricist, Vol. XV (Spring 1981), pp. 28-29.

"The Stump," Descant, Vol. XXVI, No. 1 (Fall 1981), pp. 41-48. 1st story CE submitted for publication (5 Feb. 1979 to Virginia Quarterly Review). Earlier title was "Yard Sale."

1982

"Natural Suspension," Lyricist, Vol. XVI (Spring 1982), pp. 14-16.

"Plinkity Plinkity Plink," Old Hickory Review, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Fall/Winter 1982), pp. 12-21.

1984

"Raney and the Psychiatric," Pembroke Magazine, No. 16 (1984), pp. 57-62.

1988

"The Hunt," Leader (Summer Fiction and Travel Supplement), May 26, 1988, pp. 5-10.

"The Way We Are: Yard Sale," Southern Style, Vol. 2, No. 3 (May/June, 1988), p. 5.

"Birth" (sub-section of "A Southern Life"), Southern Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 1 (October 1988), pp. 30, 68.

1989

"Changing Names," Southern Review, Vol. 25, No. 1 (January 1989), pp. 230-234.

"Songs of Men," Southern Exposure, Vol. XVII, No. 1 (Spring 1989), pp. 34-39. ("Excerpted from . . . forthcoming novel, tentatively titled The Bottleneck Blues, A History of Religious Bondage in America" [i.e., Killer Diller]).

"Welty Photos Frame Lives of Everyday Folks," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Sunday, Oct. 15, 1989, Section L, page 10. (Review of Eudora Welty's Photographs)

1990

["Why Go Fishing?"], sub-section of "Our South in Words and Pictures," Southern Living, Vol. 25, No. 1 (January 1990), pp. 78-79.

["How to Cook Black-eyed Peas"], sub-section of "Our South in Words and Pictures," Southern Living, Vol. 25, No. 1 (January 1990), p. 112.

"War clouds: The terrible balloon," Independent Weekly, Vol. VIII, No. 24 (June 13-19, 1990), p. 11 (review of G.C. Hendricks, The Second War).

"from Killer Diller," The Chattahoochee Review, Volume X, Number 4 (Summer 1990), pp. 1 -12.

"The Border State of Mind," Mid-Atlantic Country , Vol. XI, No. 10 (October 1990), pp. 28-31.

1991

"Tributes to Fred Chappell" (by Edgerton et al.), Pembroke Magazine , No. 23 (1991), pp. 83-85 (CE portion).

"Venom," Southern Exposure, Vol. XIX, No. 3 (Fall 1991), pp. 37-42.

1992

"Special to The Algonkian: A Brief History of a Title, by Clyde Edgerton," The Algonkian, No. 11 (June 1992), pp. 11-12.

"Medicine for Broken Souls," New York Times Book Review, September 20, 1992, p. 13 (review of Bebe Moore Campbell's Your Blues Ain't Like Mine).

"Normal Fishing," North Carolina Humanities, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Fall 1992), pp. 7-11.

1993

"Spring Reads," by Edgerton et al. Paperwork, Vol. XI, No. 1 (Spring 1993), p. [1]. (review of Juanita Brooks' Mountain Meadows Massacre in newsletter of The Regulator Bookshop, Durham NC).

"Pan Fried Heaven," The Sophisticated Traveler: The New York Times Magazine, Part 2, May 16, 1993, pp. 30-31, 44, 46.

"A creek runs through it," NC Home, Vol. 2, No. 4 (August 1993), pp. 69-71. Rpt. in Close to Home: Revelations and Reminiscences by North Carolina Authors, ed. Lee Harrison Child. Winston Salem, N.C.: John F. Blair, Publisher, 1996, 19-25.

"Tending Trees, Modern Methods. 1891, Mumford, Colorado," Witness, Vol. VII, No. 2 (1993), pp. 28-39. From western novel in progress (Redeye).

"Booking Passage: Clyde Edgerton; Spitballs, rebellion and Ralph," Raleigh News and Observer, Dec. 26, 1993, Arts and Entertainment Section, pp. lG, 5G. (Tribute to Ralph Waldo Emerson). Rpt. in Books of Passage: 27 North Carolina Writers on the Books that Changed Their Lives, ed. David Perkins. Asheboro, N.C.: Down Home Press, 1997, pp. 63-68.

1994

"The Blufford Sparks File: Dear America," collected by Clyde Edgerton, Mail Carrier, The Oxford American, Issue 4 (Winter 1994), pp. 42-43.

"Clyde Edgerton: Notes for a Western Novel," Carolina Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 2 (Winter 1994), pp. 60-62.

"Search and Rescue," Southern Review, Volume 30, No. 3 (Summer 1994), pp. 452-461.

"Clyde Edgerton Goes West," The News and Observer, Sunday, September 11, 1994, p. 9G.

1995

"The Convict and the Ghost," New York Times Book Review, January 8, 1995, p. 16. (Review of Sharyn McCrumb's She Walks These Hills ).

"Don't Laugh, America" (from the Blufford Sparks File), The Oxford American, February 1995, pp. 24-25.

"Banjo Man at Home," The Sophisticated Traveler: The New York Times Magazine, May 14, 1995, pp. 59-60, 69-70.

"Chapter One: Open Secrets," Pete and Shirley: The Great Tar Heel Novel, in Raleigh News and Observor, November 12, 1995, pp. 1G, 5G. (beginning of serial novel by 17 NC authors).

"Chapter 18: Reunion at the Governors Inn," Pete and Shirley: The Great Tar Heel Novel, in Raleigh News and Observer, December 3, 1995, pp. 1G, 7G. (final chapter of serial novel by 17 NC authors).

1996

"Lucky Strike," The Carolina Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 2 (Winter 1996), pp. 82-87.

"Send Me to the Electric Chair," The Oxford American, Spring 1996, pp. 42-45. Rpt. in The Best American Short Stories, 1997, Selected by E. Annie Proulx with Katrina Kenison, With an Introduction by E. Annie Proulx. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997, pp. 215-222.

"Notes from the State Fair: What’s Spam Got to Do with It," text by Clyde Edgerton; photography by Jean-Christian Rostagni, The Oxford American, June/July 1996, pp. 48-57.

"Midway Madness," Raleigh News and Observor, Sunday, Oct. 20, 1996, pp. 1E, 4E. The first (1.) of 6 daily installments of the State Fair piece. This the same article as in previous entry from The Oxford American .

2. "Spam by Your Man," Monday, Oct. 21, pp. 1C, 3C.

3. "Beyond the Rides," Tuesday, Oct. 22, p. 1E.

4. "On the Trail of Uncle Bob," Wednesday, Oct. 23, pp. 1E, 3E.

5. "A friend breaks the news gingerly," Thursday, Oct. 24, pp. 1E, 3E.

6. "A dog and baloney show," Friday, Oct. 25, pp. 1D, 3D.

"Politics," Frank: An International Journal of Contemporary Writing and Art, Number 15 (1996), pp. 62-66.

1997

"North Carolina: A Dynasty of Vines," The Sophisticated Traveler: The New York Times Magazine, March 2, 1997, pp. 8, 10 ( A section of "Greeting Spring: Seven Rendezvous").

"The Story of a Wayward Paragraph," The Algonkian , New Series Number Six (June 1997), pp. 11-12.

"How to Write a Letter from an Island with No Mail Service," Hooks Lies & Sinkers, Volume 2, Number 1 (November 1997), pp. 4-6.

"Edgerton Playing God," The North Carolina Review of Books, November/December 1997, pp. 8, 10.

1998

"As we look to spring, we can savor winter’s warmth," Charlotte Observer, Saturday, January 17, 1998, p. 1G.

"On the Escalator," News and Observer, Sunday, May 31, 1998, p. 2D.

"Lunch at the Piccadilly," Carolina Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 3 (Summer 1998), pp. 24-31.

Review of Gerard Herzhaft’s Encyclopedia of the Blues, in Southern Cultures, Winter 1998, pp. 103-105.

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IV. ANTHOLOGY (and other larger book) APPEARANCES:

"From Raney," A Collection of Classic Southern Humor II, ed. George William Koon. Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, Ltd., 1986, pp. 127-142.

"From Raney," Our Mutual Room; Modern Literary Portraits of the Opposite Sex, ed. Emily Ellison and Jane B. Hill. Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, Ltd., 1987, pp. 81-109.

"From Raney," The New Writers of the South: A Fiction Anthology, ed. Charles East. Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press, 1987, pp. 55-65.

"Outdoors Is Closed," Weymouth: An Anthology of Poetry , ed. Sam Ragan. Laurinburg, N.C.: St. Andrews Press, 1987, p. 102.

"Plinkity Plinkity Plink," Two Decades of 0ld Hickory Review, ed. Donald E. Phillips, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Fall/Winter 1988), pp. 4-12.

"A Four-Blade Case," Family Portraits: Remembrances by Twenty Distinguished Writers, ed. Carolyn Anthony. New York: Doubleday, 1989, pp. 79-92. (typo p. 85: "Confidence" for "Confident"). Plus Another copy (paperback). New York: Penguin Books, 1991, pp. 79-92 (typo on p. 85 remains uncorrected).

"Changing Names," New Stories From the South: The Years Best, 1990, ed. Shannon Ravenel. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1990, pp. 127-33.

"From Walking Across Egypt," 0ut on the Porch: An Evocation in Words and Pictures, introduction by Reynolds Price. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1992, p. 29.

"Washing Dishes," The Rough Road Home: Stories by North Carolina Writers, ed. Robert Gingher. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992, pp. 102-117.

"Venom, " Inside, Outside ‘93: Fiction Anthology, ed. Roberta George, Janice Daugharty, et al. Valdosta, Georgia: Snake Nation Press, Inc., 1992, pp. 31-41.

"From Raney," The Christ-Haunted Landscape; Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction, ed. Susan Ketchin. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994, pp. 354-61.

"Baby at the Lake," Writers Harvest: An Annual Collection of New Fiction, ed. William H. Shore. San Diego, New York, and London: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994, pp. 137-42. A Share Our Strength anthology.

[Recipe by Clyde Edgerton], "Cornbread," Creative Cooking: Recipes from the Authors You Love, ed. Nancy G. Gates, compiled by the Writers' Group of the Triad (Asheboro, NC: Down Home Press, 1994), p. 72.

"From Raney," Roy Blount's Book of Southern Humor, ed. Roy Blount, Jr. New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 1994, pp. 59-65.

"To Be A Southerner," On the Night the Hogs Ate Wllie, ed. Barbara Binswanger and Jim Charlton. New York: Dutton, 1994, p. 5 [brief quotation].

["I'm thankful for the noise birds and frogs make..."], in "Giving Thanks," Home for the Holidays; Stories and Art Created for the Benefit of Habitat for Humanity . Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, Ltd., 1995, p. 45.

PETE AND SHIRLEY : THE GREAT TAR HEEL NOVEL 1995
(Edgerton wrote first and last chapters)

"Open Secrets" [Ch. 1]; "Reunion at the Governors Inn" [Ch. 18], Pete & Shirley: The Great Tar Heel Novel, ed. David Perkins. Asheboro, N.C.: Down Home Press, 1995, pp. 9-14, 97-104. Two printings.

"The Well," Our Words, Our Ways: Reading and Writing in North Carolina, Second Edition, ed. Sally Buckner. Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1995, pp. 441-446.

"Clyde Edgerton: Evocations from the Photographs," Picturing the South: 1860 to the Present, ed. Ellen Dugan. Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 1996, pp. 72-75.

"A Creek Runs Through It," Close to Home: Revelations and Reminiscences by North Carolina Authors, ed. Lee Harrison Child. Winston Salem, N.C.: John F. Blair, Publisher, 1996, 19-25.

"On Ralph Waldo Emerson," Books of Passage: 27 North Carolina Writers on the Books that Changed Their Lives, ed. David Perkins. Asheboro, N.C.: Down Home Press, 1997, pp. 63-68.

"Send Me to the Electric Chair," The Best American Short Stories, 1997, Selected by E. Annie Proulx with Katrina Kenison, With an Introduction by E. Annie Proulx. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997, pp. 215-222.

"A Response [to George Inness’ painting Under the Greenwood]," The Store of Joys: Writers Celebrate the North Carolina Museum of Art’s Fiftieth Anniversary, ed. Huston Paschal. North Carolina Museum of Art, 1997, pp. 73-75.

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V. JUVENILE AND EARLY WRITINGS:

''Buzzard Gets Bird's-eye View of Three-Man Adventures," by Buzzy [pseud.]. Southern Script, Vol. IV, No. 6 (May 27, 1960), pp. 2, 4. (Published by the Journalism Club of Southern High School, Durham, NC). First writing in print.

"An Afternoon in the Gym," by Gym Mouse [pseud.], Southern Drawl (December 1960), 1 p. (pages unnumbered) on recto of 9th sheet from the front. Published at Southern High school.

"Blind Peacenik," by C. C. Edgerton, Daily Tar Heel, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 1965, p. 2.

"See Game, Not Drunks," by C. Edgerton, Daily Tar Heel, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 1965, p. 2.

"'The Toad,"' by Mulreed Brutt [pseud.], The Chanticleer, Dec. 16, 1965, p. 5. (Averett College Student Newspaper, Danville, Va.).

"Blind Peacenik," by C. C. Edgerton, The Chanticleer, Dec. 16, 1965, p. 5.

"Camp Pimlico Is Living Proof That Retarded Children Have Fun," Washington Daily News, Washington, North Carolina, August 4, 1966, p. 3.

"Film Editing by Deaf and Hearing Students: A Comparison," Dissertation, UNC: Chapel Hill, 1977, 100 pp.

Moral Dimensions of Tobacco: A Study Paper Prepared by the Tobacco Study Committee of the North Carolina Council of Churches (1984). Edgerton was a member of the Tobacco Study Committee and, according to him, he "helped write and edit" the pamphlet.

"Clyde Edgerton," First Words: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors, collected and edited by Paul Mandelbaum. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1993, pp. 188-197 (reprints "Buzzard" and "Gym").

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VI. INTERVIEWS:

O'Briant, Don. "How Clyde Edgerton Decided to Write a Novel," Atlanta Constitution (Friday, May 10, 1985), p. 8-C.

O'Briant, Don. "N.C. author finds 'grit lit' label not to his taste," Atlanta Constitution (Tuesday, May 12, 1987), pp. 1-B, 4-B.

Miller, Roger. "Edgerton's novels are catching on," The Milwaukee Journal, Sunday, August 28, 1988.

Carr, Genie. "A Long Haul: Writer Worked for 10 Years on His Third Novel," Winston-Salem Journal, Sunday, Sept. 11, 1988, pp. H1, H3.

Summer, Bob. "Clyde Edgerton" (PW Interviews, ed. Sybil Steinberg), Publishers Weekly, Vol. 234, No. 12 (September 16, 1988), pp. 58, 60.

Pogrebin, Robin. "A Better Jet Pilot Than Keats," New York Times Book Review, Oct. 9, 1988, p. 10.

Bennett, Elizabeth. "Late start no hindrance to Southern author Edgerton," The Houston Post, Sunday, October 16, 1988, p. F-11.

Moyer, Bob. "Personal touch puts Algonquin Books, Edgerton on top," The Grand Rapids Press, Sunday, October 16, 1988, p. C9.

O'Briant, Don. "Edgerton Steady as 'Floatplane' Takes Off," Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Sunday, October 23, 1988, pp. 1K, 10K.

O'Briant, Don. "Carolina writer lets vine do the talking," Memphis Commercial Appeal, Sunday, October 30, 1988.

McGlinn, Jeanne M. "To Make A Good Story: An Interview with Clyde Edgerton," The Arts Journal, Vol. 14, No. 2 (November 1988), pp. 36-37.

Compton, Robert. "Clyde Edgerton: Getting Serious," The Dallas Morning News, Sunday, November 20, 1988, p. B1.

O'Briant, Don. "With his third N.C. novel, Clyde Edgerton is floating on air," Wilmington Sunday Star-News, November 20, 1988, p. 6H.

Pate, Nancy. "Clyde Edgerton's novel approach: Humorist takes a serious turn with an odd twist in 'Floatplane,'" The Orlando Sentinel, Nov. 22, 1988, pp. E1, E4.

"A Southern Voice: Clyde Edgerton on Religion, Fiction and Academia,'' Excursus: A Review of Religious Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1 (March 1989), pp. 18-23.

Littleton, George. "Clyde Edgerton Discusses His Novels, Writing and Influences," Book Talk (Montgomery, Alabama: Capitol Book and News, November 1989), 2pp., unnumbered, between pp. 6 and 7.

Drew, Tamara. "'Raney' Days: A Conversation with Clyde Edgerton," This Week (Wednesday, February 21, 1990), pp. 3. 10. (Rocky Point, N. C.)

Littleton, George. ''Southern Writer Shows Humor, Spirit of Rural Life," The Eclectic Observer, Vol. 1, No. 21 (July 12, 1990), pp. 4-5, 8.

Simpson, David. "Versatile Southerner working to dispel literary stereotype," The Houston Post, Sunday, Nov. 18, 1990, Section C, p. 7.

McGlaun, Sandee. "Clyde Edgerton shares advice for writers in interview," The Profile, Friday, December 7, 1990, p. 9 (Agnes Scott College newspaper).

Walsh, William J. "Clyde Edgerton," Speak So I Shall Know Thee: Interviews with Southern Writers. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 1990, pp. 115-124. (Interview conducted Dec. 2, 1988).

Parker, Laurie. "Clyde Edgerton -- a 'killer diller from the South' returns"; appeared Book Page, Nashville, Tenn.; and Booksmith Pages, Hanover Mall, Mass. (January 1991).

Gowen, Anne. "Edgerton hones his humor in satirical ‘Killer Diller,'" The Washington Times (Wednesday, February 13, 1991), pp. E1-E2.

Morris, Ann. "Edgerton: pilot, bluesman, writer." Greensboro News and Record (Sunday, February 17, 1991), p. B5.

Carlin, Margaret. "Writer Edgerton Tells Story behind Story of 'Killer Diller,"' Rocky Mountain News, Feb. 20, 1991.

Streitfeld, David. "A Writer's Flights," The Washington Post (Sunday, Feb. 24, 1991).

Harkleroad, Caroline. "Clyde Edgerton on Fried Okra, Fainting Goats, the telling of a Good Story, and Killer Diller," Oxford Review, Vol. 6, No. 2 (February 1991), pp. 1-2, 19.

Harrington, Maureen. "Author tells as fine a tale as he writes." The Denver Post, Sunday, March 10, 1991.

Starr, William W. "Author's limits put to the test," The State (Columbia, S.C.), March 24, 1991.

Broili, Susan. "Flying High: Durham Novelist Clyde Edgerton on art, life, blues, and the Lord," Durham Herald-Sun, April 14, 1931, pp. E1, E10.

Robbins, Kenn. ''A Conversation with Clyde Edgerton." The Southern Quarterly, Volume 30, Number 1 (Fall 1991), pp. 59-65.

Ross, Jean W. "CA Interview," Contemporary Authors, ed. Susan M. Trosky. Detroit and London: Gale Research Inc., 1992. Volume 134, Pages 151-155.

Blount, Mary Angel. "One Man's Paradox: An Interview with Clyde Edgerton," The Rebel, Vol. 34 (Spring/Fall, 1992), pp. [52-53]. Literary Arts Magazine of East Carolina University.

Upchurch, Michael. "'Memory' offers full picture of family entanglements," Seattle Times, Friday, October 2, 1992, p. D2.

Pintarich, Paul. "Storytelling, Southern-style," Portland Oregonian, October 9, 1992.

Romine, Dannye. "Southern accent: N.C. native Edgerton packs his novels with Tar Heel sounds and people," The Charlotte Observer, Oct. 11, 1992, pp. 1F, 6F.

Starr. William W. "Edgerton says books come 'out of the fog.'" The State (Columbia, SC), p. 1 F.

"A Conversation with Clyde Edgerton," Insights, Vol. VII, No. 1 (Fall 1992), pp. 4-5.

"From an Author's Point of View," TIP Network News, Vol. II, No. 2 (Fall 1992), pp. 4-5.

Italie, Hillel. "Just loves to tell stories," The Spectrum, Nov. 17, 1992.

Macy, Beth. "Family Plots: Real life has provided Clyde Edgerton with a generous supply of material for his books," Roanoke Times and World-News, Saturday, Dec. 19, 1992, pp. Extra 1, Extra 5.

Lee, Tom, Sue Mullin, and Jason J. Porter. ''Visiting with Clyde Edgerton," Collage, Fall, 1992, pp. 13-17. (Student Creative Magazine at Middle Tennessee State University).

Browning, Pamela. "A Conversation with Clyde Edgerton," Coker: The Magazine of Coker College, Volume I, No. 1 (Fall 1993), pp. 8-12.

Ketchin, Susan. "Interview," The Christ-Haunted Landscape: Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1994, pp. 361-70.

Brown, W. Dale. "Dusty's Flying Taxi," Carolina Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 2 (Winter 1994), pp. 38-59. Rpt. in Of Fiction and Faith : Twelve American Writers Talk About Their Vision and Work. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1997, pp. 117-143.

Powell, Dannye Romine. "Clyde Edgerton," Parting the Curtains: Interviews with Southern Writers. Interviews by Dannye Romine Powell; Photographs by Jill Krementz (Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, 1994), pp. 82-91.

Campbell, Christopher D. "A Conversation with Clyde Edgerton about Reading , Writing, and Being ‘Southern’, " Xavier Review , Vol. 15, No. 1 (Spring 1995), pp. 1-11.

Stephenson, Shelby. "Clyde Edgerton: Singing this Song," Carolina Quarterly , Volume 48, Number 2 (Winter 1996), pp. 75-81.

Campbell, Christopher D. "Reading, Writing, and Going to War: An Interview." War, Literature, and the Arts . Volume 8, Number 2 (Fall/Winter 1996), pp. 133-147.

Brown, W. Dale. "Dusty's Flying Taxi," Of Fiction and Faith : Twelve American Writers Talk About Their Vision and Work. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1997, pp. 117-143.

"Edgerton’s Latest Novel Is His 7th," Durham Herald-Sun, August 24, 1997.

Jenkins, Steven. "Southern Comfort," Detour Magazine, September 1997.

Rich, Jonathan. "Try A Slice of Southern Writing at Novello ‘97," The Leader (Charlotte, NC), pp. 44-45.

Quigley, Linda. "Edgerton Always Finds ‘Trouble’" The Tennessean (Nashville, TN), pp. 1K, 6K.

Browne, Murray. "Hometown Revisited: Edgerton’s Latest Anchored in 1950’s Setting," Knoxville News-Sentinel, Oct. 19, 1997.

Grossman, Mary Ann. "Here Comes ‘Trouble,’" St. Paul Pioneer Press, Oct. 26, 1997.

Rigler, Judyth. "Edgerton draws on life in small, Southern towns," San Antonio Express-News, Oct. 26, 1997.

Warren, Robert J. "The Art of Writing: Clyde Edgerton Gives a Few Pointers," High Point Enterprise, Nov. 6, 1997, p. 7D.

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VII. ARTICLES ABOUT:

"Clyde Edgerton gets novel published after 202 rejections," Western Wake Herald (Apex, NC), March 6, 1985, pp. 12, 14.

Selby, Holly. "Taking the Rural Route," The Raleigh Times, March 11, 1985, pp. 1 B-2B.

Winston, Diane. "Campbell teacher's contract delayed after writing novel about small town," Raleigh News and Observer, March 28, 1985, pp. 1A, 6A.

Winston, Diane. "Campbell debate shifts from novel to academic freedom'' Raleigh News and Observer, May 5, 1985, pp. 33A-34A.

Winston, Diane. "Campbell Professor resigns, says school hurt academic freedom," Raleigh News and Observer, May 25, 1985, pp. lC-2C.

"Clyde Edgerton," Contemporary Literary Criticism Yearbook, 1985, ed. Sharon K. Hall. Volume 39. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1986, pp. 52-54.

Nixon, Will. "Algonquin Books," Poets and Writers Magazine (November/December 1987), pp. 8-11. (Much of this article is on Edgerton, who "put Algonquin on the map")

Clark, Miriam Marty. "Southern Lights," MD (October 1988), pp. 103-110. (CE mentioned as one of the "brightest lights" of a "fresh crop" of promising young Southern fiction writers.)

Underwood, R. K. "Clyde Edgerton," ["Tarheel Sketch"], Winston-Salem Journal (Sunday, December 11, 1988), pp. A21, A24.

"Concerning The Floatplane Notebooks," The Algonkian, No. 3 (September 1988), pp. 1-4.

Pearson, Michael. "Stories to Ease the Tension," The Hollins Critic, Vol. XXVII, No. 4 (October 1990), pp. 1 -9.

McFee, Michael. "'Reading a Small History in A Universal Light': Doris Betts, Clyde Edgerton, and the Triumph of True Regionalism," Pembroke Magazine, No. 23 (1991), pp. 59-67.

Bangham, Bill. "Clyde Edgerton Puckers Up," Agnes Scott Magazine (Spring 1991), pp. 14-19.

Robbins, Kenn. "Clyde Edgerton's Killer Diller" (review essay). The Southern Quarterly, Volume 30, Number 1 (Fall 1991), pp. 66-69.

Kozikowski, Thomas. "Edgerton, Clyde (Carlyle) 1941-," Contemporary Authors, ed. Susan M. Trosky. Detroit and London: Gale Research Inc., 1992. Volume 134, Pages 147-151.

Dvorak, Angeline Godwin. "Cooking as Mission and Ministry in Southern Culture: The Nurturers of Clyde Edgerton's Walking Across Egypt, Fannie Flagg's Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe and Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant," Southern Quarterly, Volume 30, Numbers 2-3 (Winter-Spring, 1992), pp. 90-98.

"Clyde Edgerton and the Book Burners," The Algonkian, No. 11 (June 1992), pp. 3-6.

Frega, Donna Lee. Review of In Memory of Junior. Southern Quarterly, Volume 31, No. 2 (Winter 1993), pp. 187-88.

Pais, Arthur J. "A Man With A Story To Tell," The State (April 1993), pp. 33-35 ("Tar Heel Profile").

[Brown, David and Campbell, Hilbert H.] "Author Checklist #9: Clyde Edgerton"; "Clyde Edgerton: A Supplemental List," MFE Collectors' Bookline, Issue 10 (May, 1993), pp. 2; 7; additional discussion on pp. 10-11. See also Issue 8, p. 11.

Hennis, R. Sterling, Jr. "Clyde Edgerton," Contemporary Fiction Writers of the South, ed. Joseph M. Flora and Robert Bain. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1993, pp. 112-122.

Ketchin, Susan. "Clyde Edgerton: A Garden of Paradoxes," The Christ-Haunted Landscape: Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994, pp. 352-370.

Flora, Ken. "Edgerton turns west in new book." Danville Register & Bee, Sunday, April 24, 1994, p. 4C.

Ravenel, Shannon. "Clyde Edgerton Goes West: A note from the editor, The Algonkian, New Series Number 1 (January 1995), pp. 6-7.

Chung, Jeanie. "Clyde Edgerton Goes West in Newest Novel," Southern Book Trade, Vol. 1, No. 7 (March, 1995), p. 16.

Reason, Betsy. "Writer writes like a writer, but reads as a reader," Daily Ledger (Indianapolis), April 13, 1995, pp. A5-A6.

Lohmann, Bill. "Plotting an eerie coincidence," Times-Dispatch (Richmond, Va.), May 3, 1995, pp. D1, D6.

Griggs, Brandon. "New Setting Enlivens Embalmer," Salt Lake City Tribune, May 14, 1995.

Starr, William W. "Making Connections," The State (Columbia, SC), June 4, 1995, pp. F1, F3.

Arnold, Julianne. "Catching a Red Eye Special," The Muckraker, July 13, 1995, p. 6.

Patterson, John S. "Clyde (Carlyle) Edgerton," in "A Dictionary of North Carolina Writers, E," North Carolina Literary Review, Vol. 11, No. 2 (1995), p. 231.

Huggins, Cynthia E. "Witnessing by Example: Southern Baptists in Clyde Edgerton’s Walking Across Egypt and Killer Diller," Southern Quarterly, Vol. XXXV, No. 3 (Spring 1997), pp. 91-96.

"Clyde Edgerton," Southern Writers, Photographs by David G. Spielman, Text by William W. Starr, Foreword by Fred Hobson. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1997, pp. 54-55.

Grimshaw, James A., Jr. "Clyde Edgerton: Death and Dying," Southern Writers at Century’s End, ed. Jeffrey J. Folkes and James A. Perkins. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1997, pp. 238-246.

Musante, Glenna B. "Writer Savors Hero’s Welcome: Satire made him pariah to his bosses at Campbell," News and Observer, Monday, June 1, 1998, pp. 1B, 5B.

Canfield Reisman, Rosemary M. and Suzanne Booker-Canfield. "Clyde Edgerton," Contemporary Southern Men Fiction Writers: An Annotated Bibliography. Lanham, Md.: The Scarecrow Press, 1998, pp. 166-173.

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VIII. THESES AND DISSERTATIONS:

Harris, Stuart Evan. Clyde Edgerton's Depiction of a South in Transition.. Dissertation: Middle Tennessee State University, December 1994.

Hovis, George Rhyne. Family, Community, and Self in the Fiction of Clyde Edgerton.. M.A. Thesis: UNC, Chapel Hill, 1994.

Elliott, Sara E. Dead Bodies, Burned Letters, and Burial Grounds: Negotiating Place Through Storytelling in Contemporary Southern Fiction. Dissertation: Northern Illinois University, August 1998. (on Clyde Edgerton, Lewis Nordan, and Lee Smith).

Fox, Carol Graham. Novels of Manners: Echoes of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE in RANEY. M. A. Thesis: East Tennessee State University, May 1998.

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IX. MUSIC (Sound Recordings):

Walking Across Egypt : Songs and Readings from the Books Raney and Walking Across Egypt, by Clyde Edgerton. Sung and Played by the Tarwater Band: Clyde Edgerton, Susan Edgerton, and Jim Watson. Chicago: Flying Fish Records, Inc., 1987.

Walking Across Egypt (cassette tape version of above).

The Killer Diller Tapes: Songs by Dusty and the Taildraggers; Reading by CE from his Novel, Killer Diller.

The Devil's Dream, Traditional and Original Music (from the novel by Lee Smith), sung and played by the Tarwater Band: Susan Ketchin, Clyde Edgerton. and Bill Butler, [1992]. Cassette tape.

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