Offutt's late father went from running a small insurance agency to writing more than 400 books, mostly pornography. Originally broadcast March 2,... Chris Offutt Reveals A Family Secret In 'My Father, ...
"THE RELUCTANT SHERIFF" by Chris Offutt (Grove Hardcover, 288 pages, $27). Ex-Army CID investigator Mick Hardin is back at it in the Kentucky hills in "The Reluctant Sheriff," the fourth installment ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Chris Offutt doesn't have HBO, so he's going to head over to a neighbor's house Sunday night to watch "Treme." It just might be his last chance to see his name in a television ...
"SHIFTY'S BOYS" by Chris Offutt (Grove Press, 272 pages, $27). The epigraph "These hills don't change" in Chris Offutt's "Shifty's Boys" is lifted from Cesare Pavese's "South Seas," a prose poem about ...
Author Chris Offutt will read "A Good Pine," a short story set in his native Kentucky. In it, an old man raising his granddaughter alone is... Author Chris Offutt Reads 'A Good Pine' In "A Good Pine," ...
Chris Offutt's late father went from running a small insurance agency to writing more than 400 books, mostly pornography. The writer tells Fresh Air his dad believed he would be "extremely famous" for ...
Had Chris Offutt titled his memoir “My Father, the Science Fiction Writer,” surely it would not attract so much attention. This cleverly marketed reminiscence of a writer’s coming of age in eastern ...
Offutt melds sharp prose and satisfying grit in his fourth thriller featuring former Army investigator Mick Hardin (after Code of the Hills). Hardin came out of retirement to serve as the sheriff of ...
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In "A Good Pine," an old man raising his granddaughter alone is determined to get her a Christmas tree from the woods. But he has a problem: His axe is broken. Chris Offutt is the author of five books ...