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Poetry journal. Multiple volumes.

Prose poetry, chapbook; 40 pages.

Poetry; 40 pages. "First edition and one of 100 original copies."

Poems; 30 pages.

Poems; 28 pages.

Thesis, Master's of Fine Arts, University of Florida. Abstract: "The short stories included in this M.F.A. thesis represent two years of work in the University of Florida's creative writing program. The first story, "Bingo", arose from a workshop experiment inspired by Thomas Bernhard via Padgett Powell. "Beautiful in the Light", the second story, was also inspired by an outside source; the prompt was "write about light". "Paul and Diana," the third story in this thesis, has been a project in the making since 1996. I began the piece while staying in Thomas Merton's hermitage at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky. Using Merton's personal library and my own, I drew from sources as varied as Friedrich Nietzsche to Janis Joplin, Tom Robbins to St. Augustine, Voltaire to Mother Isabel Daurelle, John Lee Hooker to Shakespeare. I believe the story has finally found its true form. "Reflections on the Elkhorn" is similar to "Paul and Diana" in that I have been working on the story for several years. The original inspiration was derived from my experiences operating a canoe rental business in central Kentucky while I was an undergraduate at Georgetown College. Like "Paul and Diana," I believe this story has finally come together the way it was meant to be. The next three stories, "Margo," "The Last Bastion," and "Stripped," are survivors from two larger projects that I originally imagined to be novellas. "Margo" represents the opening chapter of "The Dirt King," a longer piece concerning the main characters you will read about here. "The Last Bastion" and "Stripped" are excerpted from "The Pirate Haus," a novella-in-progress similar in structure to William Elsschot's "Villa des Roses." Even though these are excerpted stories, I believe they have the ability to stand on their own merits. The final story representing this thesis is titled, "Flaco." I was playing around with the idea of having a monkey on your back, except nobody else can see it. These stories are like ammo, and at this point, I have "No More Bullets."

Fiction. "Tevis in unequaled when it comes to creating and sustaining the tension of a high stakes game. Even readers who have never lifted a cue will be captivated."--Publishers Weekly. Twenty years after he conquered the underground pool circuit as The Hustler, "Fast" Eddie Felson is playing exhibition matches with former rival Minnesota Fats in shopping malls for prizes like cable television. With one failed marriage and years of running a pool hall behind him, Eddie is now ready to regain the skills needed to compete in a world of pool that has changed dramatically since he left. The real challenge comes when Eddie realizes that in order to compete with a new wave of young players, he must hone his skills in the unfamiliar game of nine-ball as opposed to the straight pool that had once won him fame. With a new generation of competitors, a higher-profile series of matches, and a waning confidence in his own abilities, "Fast" Eddie faces new challenges with unpredictable outcomes. The Color of Money is the source of the 1986 film starring Paul Newman in the role he had originated in The Hustler. Originally published: New York, NY: Warner Books, 1984.

Fiction; stories. The author of the competitive pool thriller The Hustler and the groundbreaking sci-fi novel The Man Who Fell to Earth, Walter Tevis was also a master of the short story. His work was published in Playboy, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, and many other magazines. This anthology collects some of his best short work. Full of wit, surprise, dark humor, and deep emotion, these stories pack a punch and are ideal for fans of his longer work or those looking for an introduction to one of America's most iconic sci-fi writers. "The poetic imprints of a fine writer's trail." --The Times. First published in 1981.

Fiction. "A wonderful hymn to the last true era when men of substance played pool with a vengeance."-Time Out. When it was first published in 1959, The Hustler was the first--and the best--novel written about billiards in the 400-year history of the game. The book quickly won a respected readership and later an audience for the movie with the same name starring Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason. The Hustler is about the victories and losses of one "Fast" Eddie Felson, a poolroom hustler who travels from town to town conning strangers into thinking they could beat him at the game when in fact, he is a skillful player who has never lost a game. Until he meets his match in Minnesota Fats, the true king of the poolroom, causing his life to change drastically. This is a classic tale of a man's struggle with his soul and his self-esteem. "If Hemingway had the passion for pool that he had for bullfighting, his hero might have been Eddie Felson."-Time

Science fiction; originally published: Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1963. Thomas Jerome Newton is an extraterrestrial from the planet Anthea, which has been devastated by a series of nuclear wars, and whose inhabitants are twice as intelligent as human beings. When he lands on Earth - in Kentucky, disguised as a human - it's with the intention of saving his own people from extinction. Newton patents some very advanced Anthean technology, which he uses to amass a fortune. He begins to build a spaceship to help the last 300 Antheans migrate to Earth. Meanwhile, Nathan Bryce, a chemistry professor in Iowa, is intrigued by some of the new products Newton's company brings to the market, and already suspects Newton of being an alien. As Bryce and the FBI close in, Newton finds his own clarity and sense of purpose diminishing.

Fiction; originally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday; London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1980. In a dying world where humans are drugged and lulled by electronic bliss, where there are no children, where some would rather burn themselves alive than endure, Spofforth is the most perfect machine ever created. But his only desire is cease to be. Yet there is hope in the passion and joy that a man and a woman discover in love and in books, hope for the future, hope even for Spofforth.

Fiction. Beth Harmon becomes an orphan when her parents are killed in an automobile accident. At eight years old, she is placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, where the children are given a tranquilizer twice a day. Plain and shy, she learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers that she is a chess genius. She is adopted by Alma and Allston Wheatley and goes to a local school, but remains an outsider. Desperate to study chess and having no money, she steals a chess magazine from a newspaper store and then some money from Alma Wheatley and a girl at school, so that she can enter a tournament. She also steals some of the tranquilizers to which she is becoming addicted. At thirteen she wins the tournament, and by sixteen she is competing in the US Open Championship. Like Fast Eddie (in The Hustler), she hates to lose. First published in 1983.

Fiction. It is the year 2063 and all energy sources have been depleted or declared unsafe. An ice age has begun, China's world dominance is growing, and America is sliding into impotence. Only Ben Belson, a New York financier, has any hope of reversing the decline of civilization. Undaunted by the apathy around him, haunted by emotional problems that are driving him toward suicide, he embarks on a highly publicized search for an extraterrestrial fuel supply. Though he sleeps through the long night of space, fate brings him to his star. What happens there shocks him back into sanity and life. First published in 1983.

With an introduction by Wade Hall, Morris Grubbs has sifted through vintage classics, little-known gems, and stunning debuts to assemble this collection of forty stories by popular and critically acclaimed writers. In subtle and profound ways they challenge and overturn accepted stereotypes about the land their authors call home, whether by birth or by choice. Kentucky writers have produced some of the finest short stories published in the last fifty years, much of which focuses on the tension between the comforts of community and the siren-like lure of the outside world. Arranged chronologically, from Robert Penn Warren's "Blackberry Winter" to Crystal E. Wilkinson's "Humming Back Yesterday," these stories are linked by their juxtaposition of departures and returns, the familiar and the unknown, home and beyond. Contributors: Robert Penn Warren, Caroline Gordon, James Still, Jane Mayhall, Elizabeth Hardwick, Dean Cadle, Jesse Stuart, Billy C. Clark, Janice Holt Giles, A.B. Guthrie, Jr., Hollis Summers, Ed McClanahan, Sallie Bingham, Robert Hazel, Jack Cady, Jim Wayne Miller, David Madden, Gayl Jones, Jane Stuart, Gurney Norman, Walter Tevis, Bobbie Ann Mason, Joe Ashby Porter, Leon V. Driskell, Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, Richard Cortez Day, Sena Jeter Naslund, Pat Carr, Wendell Berry, James Baker Hall, Lisa Koger, Barbara Kingsolver, Normandi Ellis, Guy Davenport, Kim Edwards, Chris Holbrook, Paul Griner, Chris Offutt, Dwight Allen, Crystal E. Wilkinson. Edited by Morris Allen Grubbs; with an introduction by Wade Hall and an afterword by Charles E. May.

A memoir of living with writer Walter Tevis.

Archival material; housed at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. Summary, "The Walter S. Tevis papers span from the 1950s to the 1970s and document the career of this author and Ohio University faculty member."

Archival material; housed at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Summary, "Consists primarily of the writings of author Walter S. Tevis, 1928-1984, with some correspondence. Photocopies of articles about Tevis and his writings complete the collection."

DVD video. Videodisc release of the 1961 motion picture. "Based on the novel by Walter S. Tevis." Academy Awards, 1961: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration Black-and-White ; Best Cinematography, Black-and-White.

DVD video. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1976. Based on the novel by Walter Tevis. Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA, 1977: Golden Scroll - Best Actor (David Bowie)

DVD video. Originally released as a motion picture in 1986. Based on the novel by Walter Tevis. Winner, Academy Award, Best Actor (Newman)

"Beautiful...a last transmission from a dying star." - Time Out. One of the last works completed by beloved pop icon David Bowie before his death in early 2016, the otherworldly musical Lazarus is a poignant homage to his legacy. Inspired by the 1963 novel The Man Who Fell to Earth, Lazarus weaves a thrilling rock opera from new compositions by Bowie as well as many of his classic songs.