2015
The Oxford American
"Trash Food"
2016
The Oxford American
"Bourbon and Cheese"
2016
Harper’s Magazine
"In the Hollow: The changing face of Appalachia—and its role in the presidential race"
2016
Virginia Quarterly Review
"Johnny Bill"
2011
Killscreen
"Hoarding, Happiness, and Heartbreak"
2006
Author Chris Offutt Reads "A Good Pine"
Fiction in Magazines |
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| "Johnny Bill" | Virginian Quarterly Review | 2016 |
| “Mr. Cartoon” | Virginia Quarterly Review | 2014 |
| “Back Down Home” | Playboy | 2014 |
| “Deck” | Kenyon Review | 2013 |
| “Eclipse” | Iowa Review | 2011 |
| “The Blue Zoo” | Granta | 2010 |
| “Back Porch” | Texas Review | 2008 |
| "Last Year's Bird Nest" | Boulevard | 2007 |
| “Cutting the Gut” | Gettysburg Review | 2006 |
| “Lucy’s People” | Fence | 2005 |
| “Chuck’s Bucket” | McSweeney’s | 2003 |
| “Second Hand” | Iowa Review | 2003 |
| “Inside Out” | Tin House | 2002 |
| “Vegetable on the Hoof” | Post Road | 2001 |
| “Deer in the Fog” | The Idaho Review | 2001 |
| “The Spot" | Ploughshares | 2000 |
| “Booth 13” | Fence | 2000 |
| “Tough People” | Story | 1998 |
| “211 All Around” | Glimmer Train | 1998 |
| “A Dog and his Boy” | Limestone | 1998 |
| "Barred Owl" | Doubletake | 1997 |
| "Moscow, Idaho" | Granta | 1996 |
| "Target Practice" | Oxford American | 1996 |
| "High Water" | Gentleman’s Quarterly | 1994 |
| "Out of the Woods" | Esquire | 1993 |
| "Melungeons " | Story | 1993 |
| "Old of the Moon" | Quarterly West | 1992 |
| "Thaw" | Onionhead | 1992 |
| "Horseweed" | Willow Springs | 1991 |
| "Sawdust" | Northwest Review | 1991 |
| “The Leaving One" | High Plains Review | 1991 |
| "Melungeons" | Michigan Quarterly | 1991 |
| "House Raising" | Ploughshares | 1990 |
| "Lower Lick Fork" | Coe Review | 1990 |
Creative Non-fiction in Magazines |
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| "Chicken Cordon Blue Bloods" | The Oxford American | 2017 |
| "From the Hollow" | Harpers | 2016 |
| "Flag Pizza" | Gravy | 2016 |
| “My Dad the Pornographer" | New York Times Sunday Magazine | 2015 |
| "At Last, Sex" | Slice | 2015 |
| “Baked Possum” | The Oxford American | 2013 |
| “Someone Else” | Riverteeth | 2013 |
| “Hippest Bar on Christmas” | Creative NonFiction | 2013 |
| “Offutt Guide to Lit Terms” | Harpers Review | 2009 |
| “Up your Goose” | Tin House | 2006 |
| “Ghosts and Secret Codes” | Pleiades | 2003 |
| “The Comfort of Birds” | Southern Review | 2002 |
| “Writing Home” | Zoetrope | 1999 |
| “Home to the Hills” | The NYT Sunday Magazine | 1998 |
| “My Good Old Bad Old Days” | The Oxford American | 1994 |
Graphic Novels |
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| “The Last Hit” | Noir | 2009 |
| “Another Man’s Escape” | Amazing Adventures of the Escapist | 2005 |
Mick Hardin, a combat veteran now working as an Army CID agent, is home on a leave that is almost done. His wife is about to give birth, but they aren’t getting along. His sister, newly risen to sheriff, has just landed her first murder case, and local politicians are pushing for city police or the FBI to take the case. Are they convinced she can’t handle it, or is there something else at work? She calls on Mick who, with his homicide investigation experience and familiarity with the terrain, is well-suited to staying under the radar. As he delves into the investigation, he dodges his commanding officer’s increasingly urgent calls while attempting to head off further murders. And he needs to talk to his wife.
With an investigator-hero unlike any in fiction, The Killing Hills is a dark and witty novel of betrayal and the way it so often shades into violence.
Available from Grove Press
June 15, 2021
One of the most sensitive, nuanced examinations of father and son relationships.
The Boston Globe
A generous reminiscence . . . ruminative and melancholy . . . Offutt somehow manages to summon compassion for his father. That, ultimately, is what makes this memoir so unexpectedly moving.”
The New York Times
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Offutt’s bold refusal to submit to nostalgic sentimentality, even as he admits defeat and forsakes his search for “home,” and his skill as prose stylist set this book apart from the many homecoming memoirs.
Publishers Weekly
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”The Good Brother” is a fine first novel by a fierce writer.
New York Times
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“The story of Mr. Offutt’s journey is so rich and fantastic and desperately honest that it could stand alone. But twined with the slower, lovely wanderings of a man confronting wild nature in the womb of his wife, The Same River Twice is as moving as the current he must cross and recross to find his way.”
The New York Times Book Review
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“Wariness is the main quality Offutt’s characters present to their fellow men — that and a devotion to solitude. Yet when Offutt’s characters carry their sense of solitude off to the busier, more populous parts of the American landscape, they can experience a chilling sense of alienation … For his Kentucky exiles, acting out can become a form of nostalgia.”
New York Times
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“Mr. Offutt learned to tell stories, which is what he does these days, exquisitely.”
New York Times
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The novel is an undeniable testament to the importance and clarity of Offutt’s voice in contemporary American literature.
Publishers Weekly
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