CBR13Bingo – Shelfie This is a 1940 novel by the Kentucky writer James Still. I learned about James Still from Lee Smith’s memoir Dimestore, where the older writer clearly had some positive influence over Lee Smith both in writerly ways and in personal ways. This novel is narrated by a seven year old boy who is watching from his perch as his family, his parents, and his neighbors deal with the realities of rural Kentucky life, the Great Depression, and just the regular vicissitudes of […]