All posts tagged Chris Offutt
Chris Offutt and Treme in the Washington Post
Kentucky native, author Chris Offutt has written Episode 6, “Careless Love,” for the current season of HBO’s Treme, airing this Sunday, October 28. Fats Domino is in the episode. Offutt is the author of Kentucky Straight, Out of the Woods, …
New work from Kentucky Native Chris Offutt: Grit Lit and Treme
"Melungeons," by Kentucky native and author Chris Offutt is included in the new anthology, Grit Lit: A Rough South Reader (University of South Carolina Press.) The story was
Chris Offutt: Porn Bought My Football
Ace coverstory January 5, 2006 Award-winning author and Kentucky native Chris Offutt (now writing and teaching in Iowa) grew up in an Eastern Kentucky small town that
Riled Up: Author Chris Offutt Stirs Up a Hornet’s Nest
Ace April 18, 2002 coverstory Fightin Words Chris Offutt's Latest Work, No Heroes, Stirs the Home Fires in Kentucky No matter how you leave the hills—army, prison, marriage, job, college—when
Chris Offutt: Getting it Straight, Kentucky Straight
Ace November 9, 2000 Getting it Straight by Chris Offutt I began writing the stories in Kentucky Straight after my return to Rowan County as a thirty-year-old newlywed. Rita and I
Chris Offutt: The Hot Rod, Wild and Loose and at Long Last, Cool
Ace July 2000 The Hot Rod: Wild and Loose and at Long Last, Cool by Chris Offutt In 1998, I moved back to Kentucky for the fifth time. This time I
Out of the Woods: Author Chris Offutt Comes Home to the Hills
Ace coverstory. Chris Offutt interview. November 25 1998 "We have been taught by Jefferson's struggles with Hamilton, by Calhoun's with Webster, and in the woods at Shiloh or











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