{"id":1100,"date":"2012-02-25T21:47:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T15:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2012-02-25T21:47:02","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T15:47:02","slug":"r-i-p-for-william-gay-contemporary-southern-gothic-fiction-master-the-day-the-banjo-music-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/02\/25\/r-i-p-for-william-gay-contemporary-southern-gothic-fiction-master-the-day-the-banjo-music-died\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. for William Gay, Contemporary Southern Gothic Fiction Master: the Day the Banjo Music Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So a friend sent me this notice this morning, and I&#8217;m sorry to hear it: William Gay, author of <em>The Long Home<\/em> (1999), which my editor, Greg Michalson, edited and published; <em>I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down<\/em> (2002), which includes the masterpiece creepy story, &#8220;The Paper Hanger&#8221;; and <em>Provinces of Night<\/em> (2000), his best book, in my opinion. He was a great Southern Gothic writer, and although he may be viewed as a poor-man&#8217;s Cormac McCarthy, that&#8217;s a pretty good thing to be. McCarthy casts a titanic shadow over that literary genre, and the best of William Gay gives him some good competition. For years now I&#8217;ve been waiting for his last novel, which has been slated to be published since 2005, it seems, titled\u00a0<em>The Lost Country<\/em>. I guess we&#8217;ll have to keep waiting. He had two good films made from his fiction, <em>Bloodworth<\/em> and <em>I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down.<\/em> Here&#8217;s a notice about his death:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.nashvillescene.com\/countrylife\/archives\/2012\/02\/24\/william-gay-acclaimed-tennessee-author-dead-at-68<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Bloodworth_poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1102\" title=\"Bloodworth_poster\" src=\"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Bloodworth_poster-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So a friend sent me this notice this morning, and I&#8217;m sorry to hear it: William Gay, author of The Long Home (1999), which my editor, Greg Michalson, edited and published; I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/02\/25\/r-i-p-for-william-gay-contemporary-southern-gothic-fiction-master-the-day-the-banjo-music-died\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-booksfilm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}