Publisher: UL Press, April 2012

In the midst of the Great Depression, minor league baseball thrives in small-town South Louisiana, where the Evangeline League, named in honor of Longfellow’s heroine, draws hundreds to dirt fields and grandstands in places like Jeanerette, Abbeville, and Opelousas. In 1935 Gemar Batiste, a talented young pitcher from Texas, is recruited to try out for the Rayne Rice Birds, makes the roster, and immediately begins garnering fame for himself, his team, and the league.

Publisher: Stephen F. Austin State University Press, April 2012

Decoration Day and Other Stories ranges in locale from the piney woods of Deep East Texas, to the mean streets of Memphis, to the suburbs of Washington, DC. Highly comic and deeply serious, the collection reaches from the late 19th century to the present day. The title story centers on elderly sisters striving to save an unjustly accused man from a lynch mob, while at the same time fetch home a wagonload of flowering bushes to commemorate their dead in the family cemetery. 

Publisher: TCU Press, September 2011

From dealing with intrusive family members to judgmental classmates to marital bliss and misery, Gerald Duff's memoir, Home Truths: A Deep East Texas Memory, describes situations familiar to anyone who has ever lived in a small town. Experiences unfamiliar to the youths of today include growing up during World War II and the descriptions of propaganda tactics, hunting for your own meals, and dealing with the social mores of the 1950s and 1960s.

Publisher: Moon City Press, Fall 2011

Blue Sabine is a story of five generations of Holt women, told in their voices, along with some men of Holt blood. It is set along the Sabine River, which divides the state of Texas from Louisiana and the Deep South. From 1867--when the Holts first came to Texas--to the present, the novel chronicles the emotional lives of grandmothers, mothers, daughters, and nieces, all bound by kinship and history.

Publisher: NewSouth Books, November 2007

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Gerald Duff’s collection of short stories, Fire Ants, includes work published in Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Southwest Review, Missouri Review and other magazines.

Publisher: NewSouth Books, May 2001

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Waylon McPhee, middle-aged and divorced, moves back in with his widowed father in hopes of coasting through another year.