Winship's Log.

• Author: Winship, Robert.
• Place / Publishing House: Huntsville : : Texas Review Press,, 2014.; Ã2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (379 pages)

"I was trying to remember the other day exactly what my first memories are of Kimble County, of Junction, of Segovia, Texas. There is some spectacular stuff there, if I can bring it all to the surface-without making anything up. That's not real hard to do, but it takes time. You have to go slow."-Bob Winship"In my almost forty years of editing, from journals to anthologies to books, I have from time to time encountered a spectacular talent who, because of circumstance, has never been recognized for the genius that he is. Such is the case with Bob Winship, whose story collection The Brushlanders is as fine a book of short fiction as has ever come out of the state of Texas and whose two novels, Every Man Also and Flannery's Crossing, are astonishingly fine reads. Bob keeps to himself, though, and refuses to engage in the self-promotion game that so often propels to prominence lesser lights that in time will extinguish on their own, dying from simple lack of talent."In this, Bob's first book of essays, the reader will get an in-depth look at one of our finest writers and relish the rich literary world of the western Texas Hill Country that he brings to life"-Paul Ruffin, Director, Texas Review Press.

Table of Contents

Intro -- winship's log -- Introduction -- A Dog's Life -- A Sudden Change of Plans -- In The Doghouse -- The Engine That Ran Backwards -- My First Lesson -- Mission San Juan Segovia -- It's Way Big Out There -- A Snake For The Books -- Are We Sheep, Or What? -- Tomato Juice Works -- They Do Talk Faster -- Big Aoudad -- Don't Bet A Stranger -- Tale Of The Flying Plumber -- A Clean Earth -- Think Pig -- The Biggest Noise -- Catfish Heaven -- Say It Again -- Hail The Bowhunter -- He Said-She Said -- What You gain On One FrontYou Lose On Another -- Keys To The Kingdom -- Meet Ol' Bruce -- Prodigal Sons? -- The Direct Approach -- The Great Spirit -- Weather Or Not -- How About These Two? -- Heads Up. Here Comes A Bear -- Wise Or Cautious? -- Heroes, A Pair -- Chinese Dragon -- Blame The Barber -- Dracula Lives! -- The Great And The Humble -- It Runs In The Family -- To Skin A Bee -- Germann -- Raquel Raccoon -- Joe McPhail -- Careful What You Say -- Can TV Democracy Work? -- To Spank Or Not To Spank -- To Sleep In Class -- Heil! To Lufthansa -- Poor Equals Friendly -- Where There's A Will . . . -- Grandpa And Grandma -- Senior Winship -- Big Ben -- The Barking Frog -- . . . There's A Way -- Discretion Rules -- Some Have Charisma -- Rent-A-Rabbit -- Paul's Gospel -- Golf -- The Word is Stubborn -- Bad To Good And Good To Bad -- Scary News -- The Big, Bad Red Ones -- Catering Wedding Receptions -- Father Knows Best -- Firewood Theft -- Save The Males -- Yo Mama! -- CousinS' Camp -- Ninety Yards in the Air -- Cabbies I Have Known -- BigTime Payback -- Windy Bill Wright -- Albonics -- Doodles And The Pom-poms -- . . . And Hold Down Three Jobs -- A Trip To Galveston -- christmas time.