Joe Samuel Starnes

Novels: FALL LINE; RED DIRT; CALLING. Coauthor of Leth Oun’s memoir A REFUGEE'S AMERICAN DREAM: FROM THE KILLING FIELDS OF CAMBODIA TO THE U.S. SECRET SERVICE.

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The paperback of my novel Fall Line is out. Thank you to the University of Georgia Press for reissuing through its NewSouth Books imprint. Here's a reprise of the book trailer featuring the new and improved cover with a drawing by Lee Allen Wells. https://t.co/VUhnbWXcI3

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Enjoyed being on the radio in Elberton with artist extraordinaire Lee Allen Wells and talking about my novel Fall Line and the cover drawing he did https://t.co/FtzWOZvd3F

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I’m headed to the Granite Capital of the World https://t.co/1m49oenN5V

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Reading @DwightGarner's "Where Have All the Book Reviews Gone?" in @nytimesbooks makes me appreciate how fortunate I am that Fall Line had featured review in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2012. Those were the days. A blurb from it lives on the reissue cover from UGA Press.

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Mini Georgia book tour with events in Atlanta, Cedartown, and Elberton: 3-5 pm May 26, Eagle Eye Bookshop in Decatur; 1–4 pm Thursday, May 28, Polk County Historical Society; 11 am Saturday, May 30, Elbert County Public Library. Come out and say hey. https://t.co/v8ee4RmOVY

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@adalva @nyrbclassics Great piece I finished a few moments ago in print in this week's Book Review. I've always liked that novel.

[Joe Samuel Starnes @JSamuelStarnes]

The first person I showed the paperback reissue of my novel Fall Line I received this week was my mom. She was a longtime English professor Georgia Highlands College, who influenced my reading and writing. Copies will be available from UGA Press on April 15. #novels #Georgia

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The origins of my novel Fall Line have deep roots, reaching all the way back to my time as a reporter for The Union-Recorder newspaper in Milledgeville, Ga. Here I am with three state legislators before a candidate forum in 1990. #novels #georgia

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The April 15 release date for the paperback of my novel Fall Line from UGA Press is coming up quick. If you want one, please contact your local bookseller and ask them to preorder. If you teach, you can request a copy here https://t.co/jQT6Wh9Ej8

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@Super70sSports If you did a Canyonero shirt, I know people who would buy it. https://t.co/uMlJj3b9pT

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@m_o_walsh Much thanks, Neal. I was working on this one way back when we met at Sewanee. Barry Hannah critiqued one slow part of a draft as “abject naturalism.” I tightened it up.

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Forthcoming in paperback April 2026 from University of Georgia Press/NewSouth Books. See my website for preorder links

[Joe Samuel Starnes @JSamuelStarnes]

It has been more than two years since I coauthored @LethOunBook, but his is a story that will always be inspiring to me. It was 50 years ago this month that his father was executed and the Killing Fields began.

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My new piece about @WillieNelson, the Hillbilly Dalai Lama, in print edition @BitterSouth. (RIP Kris Kristofferson, who passed after this was published listing him as one of Willie's only surviving contemporaries.). First graph here and read more about it https://t.co/K0qBPS79EN

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@ellen_adair Great meeting you at @CollsBook earlier. Fantastic talk with @KeithOB

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"His memoir, A Childhood, about his impoverished upbringing near Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp, is as powerful an American story as I know.” @DwightGarner on Harry Crews and Rough South novelists via @nytimes 👇 https://t.co/QRB1Vk5RQe

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I’m glad to see Harry Crews, Barry Hannah, and Larry Brown getting attention from @DwightGarner in today’s @nytimesbooks, although I order them Larry, Harry, and Barry on my top shelf.

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@JasonNark Great story in this morning’s paper

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The online version of my story "Sanders from Cedartown" available on @GolfersJournal. You can read it as one of three free articles. Being that it's the longest piece the magazine has ever published, you can buy a copy for a more pleasant experience.
https://t.co/5KfdkmkgnX

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I'm excited to have my story "Sanders from Cedartown" in this issue--almost 10,000 words over 20 pages.

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Twenty Nine.

The Fall 2024 issue is now shipping worldwide.

Here’s a look inside: https://t.co/CRcvOO6ynk