The Southern Philosopher: Collected Essays of John William Corrington Edited by Allen Mendenhall Book Description John William Corrington, once dubbed a “Southern Man of Letters,” is mostly known for his fiction, poetry, and screenplays. Having achieved fame for writing the screenplays for The Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Boxcar Bertha, Omega Man, and other films, Corrington also wrote philosophical, literary, and jurisprudential essays that ought to be widely recognized and celebrated. Corrington turned to screenwriting because he needed money, but the enormity of his intellect is less evident in films and more evident in his essays, which are prescient, bold, provocative, and intelligent. Corrington wrote about such wide-ranging issues as his beloved South, the humanities, law, jurisprudence, Gnosticism, and Eric Voegelin. His writing, with its literary flair and abiding conservatism, is distinctly Southern. Corrington is the most extraordinary Southern philosopher never to have received the sustained attention he deserves. This book is the first to recover the profound and complex essays of this complicated man known more for his day job as a lawyer and screenwriter than for his significant critical essays and lectures. The essays and lectures in this book have never been collected. Some have never been published. This edition is an indispensable introduction to Corrington’s philosophy. Only by studying these essays and lectures may one hope to gain a proper understanding of Corrington’s full works in their broader contexts. Reviewers * Dan Sundahl of The University Bookman * Jay Langdale of the Southern Literary Review * Richard Bishirjian of ANAMNESIS Journal Retailers * Paperback from Amazon.com * Paperback from Barnes&Noble * Paperback from University of North Georgia |
Collected Poems Written by John William Corrington Edited by Joyce H. Corrington Introduction by Jo LeCoeur Book Description During his lifetime, John William Corrington (1932 – 1988) published four books of poetry, but many of his poems that appeared in “little magazines” and journals were never collected. The Collected Poems of John William Corrington now makes all of Corrington’s published poems and a number of completed but previously unpublished poems available to readers. The poems appear in roughly chronological order with a bibliography that acknowledges prior publications. Retailers * Kindle ebook from Amazon.com * Paperback from Amazon.com * NOOK ebook from Barnes&Noble.com |
And Wait for the Night Written by John William Corrington Book Description It is said that the winner writes the history, but it’s also true that the loser is free to use fiction to present the case for the defeated. John William Corrington, a noted Southern writer, published And Wait for the Night, his first novel, in 1964, near the one hundredth anniversary of the end of the American Civil War. As the novel begins, he describes the fall of Vicksburg, Mississippi to show the agony of the defeat of the Army of the Confederate States by the overwhelming might of the Federal Army. But And Wait for the Night is not primarily about the war. It is about Reconstruction, the twelve-year occupation of the Confederate States that followed their defeat. Corrington’s dramatic example of this is the occupation of Shreveport, Louisiana, by the arrogant uniformed Yankee conquerors, both white and black, and their plundering civilian companions, the carpetbaggers. During the Civil War, one out of every five Southern families lost a husband, father or son. Under Reconstruction, the surviving Southerners found their Confederate money worthless, their land taken for unpaid taxes, and their civil government replaced by military fiat. And there was one further loss: the communal agreement that a Southerner should live his life with honor. Without any hope of redress by day, the survivors forgot their honor and responded by forming secret societies that waited for the night to take vengeance against their oppressors. Major Edward Malcolm Sentell, a paroled CSA officer, tires to maintain his honor but finds himself despised by his fellow Southerners and helpless to stop the looming conflict between them and the occupying Federal forces. Retailers * Kindle ebook from Amazon.com * Paperback from Amazon.com |
The Upper Hand Written by John William Corrington Book Description John William Corrington is a noted Southern writer of poetry, fiction, film and television. The Upper Hand, his second novel, chronicles the tale of Christopher Nieman, a young Catholic priest who loses his faith. Christopher descends La-Bas, into the New Orleans French Quarter. There he encounters some of its disturbing denizens: a drug dealer, an addict, a prostitute, a pornographic movie maker, and a Mississippi deputy sheriff who is running from his past. Will Christopher be able to find his way out of this modern hell and recover his faith? A warning: The Upper Hand, while dealing seriously with the difficulty of maintaining faith in God in the modern world, is extremely irreverent and may offend religious readers. Retailers * Kindle ebook from Amazon.com * Paperback from Amazon.com * NOOK ebook from Barnes&Noble.com |
The Bombardier Written by John William Corrington Book Description The Bombardier spans the years between World War II and the riotous events of the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. In it, novelists John William Corrington explores the motivations behind today’s political upheavals by telling the story of five young men, from very different backgrounds, who are trained as bombardiers during World War II. Assigned to the European theater, the bombardiers use their skills to destroy military targets, killing thousands—but it is the morally questionable firestorm they helped create which destroyed Dresden and killed 235,000 civilians that most affects them after they return to America. “When they came home, the seeds of later violence, of Final Solutions to all problems, was sown within them.” Two decades later the former bombardiers, now middle-aged men pursuing different careers, react in different, but characteristic, ways when they encounter the riots, demonstrations, and discontent of the anti-war protesters who assembled at the 1968 Democratic Convention. Retailers * Kindle ebook from Amazon.com * Paperback from Amazon.com |
Shad Sentell Written by John William Corrington Book Description Years ago, Shad Sentell and his brother E.M. founded Omega Oil. Now Omega is an international giant, E.M. had become a slick tycoon, and Shad has stayed raw and real. Because of a past betrayal, the two brothers hate each other, but E.M. needs Shad. Omega’s biggest well, Okeanos, is ablaze in the Gulf, and only Shad can put it out. A lustful but sympathetic lover of women, hard-drinking and hard-brawling, Shad blazes a riotous trail across Louisiana that includes the wildest Mardi Gras that New Orleans has ever seen and culminates in an explosive confrontation with Okeanos–and with E.M., when long-kept family secrets are finally revealed. Retailers * Kindle ebook from Amazon.com * Paperback from Amazon.com |
Collected Short Fiction of John William Corrington Volume 1 Written by John William Corrington Edited by Joyce H. Corrington Introduction by Robert B. Heilman Book Description John William Corrington (1932 – 1988) was a noted poet, novelist and dramatist, a winner of a National Endowment for the Arts Award in Fiction. His works of short fiction were published in prominent literary journals and they have been selected for inclusion in numerous anthologies including the O. Henry Award Stories and three editions of Best American Short Stories. In “Risking the Bait,” an article that appeared in The Southern Review shortly after Corrington’s death, William Mills wrote, “I suspect that the surest bet for that which will endure in Bill’s work, and I am speaking of the level of achievement of our finest writers, will be his stories. These stories, collectively, can match anything that has been written by his generation.” Corrington published four books of short fiction in his lifetime but all are now out of print and unavailable to readers. The Collected Short Fiction of John William Corrington collects and republishes in a two volume set all of his works of short fiction. Retailers * Kindle ebook from Amazon.com * Paperback from Amazon.com |
Collected Short Fiction of John William Corrington Volume 2 Written by John William Corrington Edited by Joyce H. Corrington Introduction by Robert B. Heilman Book Description John William Corrington published three collections of short fiction: The Lonesome Traveler (1968), The Actes and Monuments (1978), and The Southern Reporter (1981). These works were re-published in The Collected Stories of John William Corrington (1990). However there are additional short stories that were published in literary and scholarly magazines as well as two novellas, published in All My Trials (1987), which were not included in the Collected Stories. This two volume set of The Collected Short Fiction of John William Corrington re-publishes for the first time all of the author’s short fiction so that it is now possible for a new generation of readers to discover that, as George Core of The Sewanee Review wrote, Corrington was “not only one of the best writers of his generation but one of the best writers of short fiction that this country has produced since the Second World War.” Retailers * Kindle ebook from Amazon.com * Paperback from Amazon.com |