![]() ![]() ![]() Rash is joined in conversation by Colum McCann, National Book Award-winning author of Let the Great World Spin (2009) and, more recently, of Apeirogon (2020).ĢRash grew up in Western North Carolina, where his family has lived for generations. ![]() In revisiting Serena Pemberton, the eponymous character of his 2008 novel, Rash updates his parable of greed run amok as his deliciously vindictive heroine returns to the North Carolina wilderness she left scarred and desecrated to make one final effort to kill the child that threatens all she has accomplished. In the ten stories of his new collection, he spins a haunting allegory of the times we live in-rampant capitalism, the severing of ties to the natural world in the relentless hunt for profit, the destruction of body and soul with pills meant to mute our pain-and yet within this world he illuminates small acts of everyday heroism. ![]() A virtuosic novelist, poet, and story writer, Rash evokes the beauty and brutality of the land, the relentless tension between past and present. At the time, Ron Rash’s new collection, In the Valley: Stories and a Novella based on Serena, had just come out. 1 The conversation is available at (.)ġOn September 2, 2020, Powell’s Books, “one of the world’s largest independent bookstores”, 1 based in Portland, Oregon, hosted Ron Rash and Colum McCann on Zoom. ![]()
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