Ron Rash

Gérald Préher and Xavier Le Brun, Foreword

Frédérique Spill and Randall Wilhelm, Introduction

Brian Railsback, From Cliffside to Casualties: Ron Rash’s Apprenticeship in Depth and Darkness

Françoise Palleau-Papin, “Their Ancient, Glittering Eyes”: A Story of Hieratic Vision

CK Walker, “A Wound So Deep and Ragged”: The Vulnerable Body of Appalachia in Ron Rash’s Short Stories

Frédérique Spill, Light Effects in Burning Bright

Gérald Préher, “A sure terrain, . . . a permanent landscape of the heart”: Ron Rash’s Poetics of Textual Space

Randi Adams, Corpse Birds and Cooling Boards: Appalachian Deathways in Ron Rash’s Short Stories

Jessica Cory, Blue Balls: Masculinity and Hypothermia in the Short Stories of Ron Rash

Patrycja Kurjatto-Renard, Men and Women in Ron Rash’s Civil War Stories in Something Rich and Strange

Marie-Christine Agosto, Reading, Seeing, Remembering: Aesthetic Experience in Ron Rash’s Stories in Nothing Gold Can Stay

Marcel Arbeit, Good Luck, Bad Luck: Ron Rash’s “Cherokee”

Erin M. Presley, Reconciling Literacy and Loss in Ron Rash’s Nothing Gold Can Stay

Randall Wilhelm, “A place where all manner of strange occurrences were possible”: The Marvelous Real in Ron Rash’s In the Valley

Martha Eads, “The Epicenter of Who I Am”: Ron Rash’s Roots in Aho, North Carolina

Bénédicte Meillon, “Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth”; An Interview with Ron Rash

Frédérique Spill, In the Valley: A Conversation with Ron Rash Ron Rash 253 “French I”: A Story

Frédérique Spill, Randall Wilhelm and Gérald Préher, Bibliography