Below are the Table of Contents, Editor's Note, and Submission Guidelines from the hard copy of issue nine of Elder Mountain: A Journal of Ozarks Studies. Table of Contents Editor’s Note / 7 Poetry James Fowler Over Here / 8 Sundown / 9 Douglas Stevens To Know This Place / 27 Amy Wright Vollmar Purchase / 50 Noland Hollow/ … [Read more...] about Issue Nine: Contents, Editor’s Note, Guidelines
Unnatural Habitats and Other Stories. By Angela Mitchell. (WTAW Press, 2018, Pp. 186) Reviewed by C. D. Albin The seven linked stories in Angela Mitchell’s debut collection Unnatural Habitats are set on both sides of the border between Missouri and Arkansas, but the dividing line most interesting to Mitchell is psychological rather than geographical. … [Read more...] about Book Review: Unnatural Habitats and Other Stories
Remembering Ella: A 1912 Murder and Mystery in the Arkansas Ozarks. By Nita Gould. (Butler Center Books, 2018, Pp. 451) Reviewed by Victoria Howerton Among a crowded and thriving field, author Nita Gould has written a stand-out exemplar of the True Crime genre. In Remembering Ella, Gould uses contemporary newspaper accounts, court records, and … [Read more...] about Book Review: Remembering Ella
Review of Living Ozarks: The Ecology and Culture of a Natural Place. Edited by William B. Edgar, Rachel M. Besara, and James S. Baumlin. (Moon City Press, 2018, Pp. 303) Reviewed by Alex Pinnon In the Living Ozarks: The Ecology and Culture of a Natural Place, edited by William B. Edgar, Rachel M. Besara, and James S. Baumlin, themes of isolation, sustainability, and … [Read more...] about Review of Living Ozarks: The Ecology and Culture of a Natural Place
Ozarks RFD Editorials By Jim Hamilton Editor’s note: Although now semi-retired, Jim Hamilton served as a journalist and newspaper editor in the Ozarks for more than 40 years. During much of his long career, he produced weekly editorial columns, and a collection of these, The River of Used To Be, was published in 1994. Below are seven columns selected as favorites from the … [Read more...] about Ozarks RFD Editorials