Twilight: William Gay's Novel of Madness and Murder “There’s folks you just don’t need. You’re better off without em. Your life is just a little better because they ain’t in it.” William Gay, October 27, 1941-February 23, 2012, Hohenwald, TNI had the good fortune to meet William Gay on...
"My new favorite writer is William Gay. He writes about a community of backwoods Tennessee characters entangled by geography, blood, competition, greed, love, and vengeance. As far as I know, Gay didn’t start publishing until the end of his life, spending most of it eking a living as a factotum o...
this here will be the 1st story from gay for me...there's a couple quotes at the beginning of this one...one from Cormac McCarthy's Child Of God, 1973:were there darker provinces of night he would have found them.so that's where the title comes from, hey? and another from richard "rabbit" brown,...
They had married his second year at the University of Tennessee and he immediately dropped out. He had to have more money. Two, it seemed, could not live nearly as cheaply as one, especially if that one had been accustomed to subsisting on whatever fell to hand, spending what little money he did ...