Jesus in the Ghost Room von RustyBarnes Paperback, 74 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2017 von Nixes Mate Books ISBN-13: 978-0-9991882-7-9, ISBN: 0-9991882-7-5
"Rusty Barnes is a rugged and honest poet. He is a student of Frank Stanford and Larry Brown. His language is pure Americana, deeply entrenched in the everyday, in family and in place. The poems in Jesus in the Ghost Room, pay homage to memory, and are an ode to his late father, but with lines such as “Oh Father / I wish I could invoke your smell, / the way your cigarette ashed onto / the sick-filled carpet on the edge / of what we could ..."
On Broad Sound von RustyBarnes Paperback, 62 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2016 von Nixes Mate Books ISBN-13: 978-0-692-80593-0, ISBN: 0-692-80593-1
"With On Broad Sound, Rusty Barnes turns his attention from his rural Appalachian roots to twenty plus years of living in a working class suburb of Boston. Ranging widely in subject matter, On Broad Sound's poems were inspired by and often titled with locations in and around the author's adopted home in Revere, Massachusetts. Whether it's observing planes land at Logan Airport, eating cookies with the city mayor or watching his children ..."
Mostly Redneck von RustyBarnes Paperback, 156 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2011 von Sunnyoutside ISBN-13: 978-1-934513-32-3, ISBN: 1-934513-32-6
"Fiction. In MOSTLY REDNECK, Rusty Barnes expounds on his upbringing in disadvantaged rural northern Appalachia to deliver a mastery of country idiom and setting. In one minimalist story after another, he gives perspective and breadth to the widely misunderstood world of a people who still hunt for food, occasionally join their neighbors for church, and sometimes enjoy it when their city kin step in cow shit."
"In Breaking it Down, Rusty Barnes lays bare the lives of the vulnerable as they traverse the difficult paths of love. Short and punchy, these stories show the cumulative effects of heartbreak and simple dreams while keeping a reserve of hope in even the darkest of circumstances."
Kraj the Enforcer Stories von RustyBarnes Paperback, 180 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2019 von Shotgun Honey ISBN-13: 978-1-64396-059-3, ISBN: 1-64396-059-8
"Meet Kraj—pronounced krai—a low-level errand boy and hitman masquerading as a bouncer for Tricky Ricky Gutierrez, nefarious owner of the Twist, a club in upstate Elmira NY. A place that has both a LGBTQIA night and a cowboy country night, this cockeyed corner bar in northern Appalachia supports Ricky’s illegal schemes, and serves as a rural balm for Croatian-war refugee Kraj. Kraj plies his trade over a short span, moving from petty the ..."
"Tough 2 is an anthology of short stories authored by Michael Bracken, Alec Cizak, S.A. Cosby, Evelyn DeShane, Tia J'anae, Nick Kolakowski, Preston Lang, Matt Mattilla, Chris McGinley, Thomas Pluck, C.A. Rowland, Rob McClure Smith, William R. Soldan, Mary Thorson, Andrew Welsh-Huggins and edited by Rusty Barnes"
"Inspired by the outcasts, outlaws, and other outré inhabitants of rock legend Lou Reed’s songbook, Dirty Boulevard traffics in crime fiction that’s sometimes velvety and sometimes vicious, but always, absolutely, rock & roll. Inside, you’ll find stories from the fire escapes to the underground, stories filled with metal machine music, stories for gender-bending, rule-breaking, mind-blasting midnight revelries and drunken, dangerous, dar ..."
The Last Danger (Killer from the Hills) von RustyBarnes Paperback, 188 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2018 von Shotgun Honey ISBN-13: 978-1-64396-001-2, ISBN: 1-64396-001-6
"Three months after a shootout with the renegade Pittman family robbed him of his brother, Matt Rider is trying to put his life back together. His wounds are many, his sworn enemy Soldier Pittman may wake up and begin to tell what he knows, his wife is on the knife edge of sanity, and his teen daughter has gone missing with the son of his sworn enemy. In a whirlwind series of killings, thefts and rash decisions, Rider ends up muling drug ..."
Ridgerunner von RustyBarnes Paperback, 186 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2017 von Shotgun Honey, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-946502-47-6, ISBN: 1-946502-47-2
"You're going to want to get yourself a snack to go with Ridgerunner, because once you start reading this book you'll forget to eat."
Knuckledragger von RustyBarnes Paperback, 200 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2017 von Shotgun Honey ISBN-13: 978-1-946502-07-0, ISBN: 1-946502-07-3
"Hooligan and low-level criminal enforcer Jason “Candy” Stahl (“Irish” to his sometime girlfriend Rosario) has made a good life collecting money for his boss Otis, breaking the occasional leg or elbow, fucking Rosario, and living the life in Revere, MA. One collection trip, though, at the Diovisalvo Liquor Store, unravels events that turn Candy’s life into a horror-show. In quick succession he moves up a notch in the organization, overs ..."
Reckoning(1st Edition) von RustyBarnes, David Mcnamara Paperback, 240 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2014 von Sunnyoutside ISBN-13: 978-1-934513-45-3, ISBN: 1-934513-45-8
"Fiction. Richard Logan begins his summer day as any fourteen-year-old might: working a farm job bringing in hay, avoiding his hard-headed father, and hanging out with his friends. When he stumbles onto an unconscious woman in the woods, he has no idea that the process of helping her will lead him into the darkness of the deeply held deceits of his rural Appalachian town. Both brutal and beautiful, RECKONING shows the seams and limits of ..."
I Am Not Ariel(1st Edition) von RustyBarnes Paperback, 88 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2013 von Cruel Joke Press ISBN-13: 978-0-615-88371-7, ISBN: 0-615-88371-0
"From straw in the crotch to beating back wild dogs, urgent sex on the hoods of cars to freckles like a woman’s skin’s sky, Barnes’s poetry is always real, always present, and ready, half the time, to remind you of the sort of Eros and Thanatos combinations that make his words both so dangerous and so virile. Transgressive, bold, this poet’s viewpoint is that of a durable man in an unforgiving landscape, presenting both the “cynicism and ..."
"Fiction. "Hard, brilliant, and dark as coal, this brand new and necessary volume captures Appalachia today, a place where the old bedrock verities of family, community, belief, work, and the earth itself are all in painful "Upheaval"—to use the title of Chris Holbrook's story herein. From manic to elegiac to rough, raw, beautiful, and heartbreaking, these stories will strike the reader as both absolutely true and as unforgettable, like ..."
"This second issue of Goliad Review contains work by award winning authors, critics, and poets. It features new poetry from American poet Cynthia Cruz; an essay on the state of literary criticism by William Logan; an excerpt from working-class fiction author Patrick Michael Finn's new novel. Plus, new work from Jesse Graves, George Singleton, and much more."
"Porn stars, loan sharks, hitmen, pimps, junkies, whores and thieves; losers rolling snake eyes with every toss. 14 psychologically disturbing tales from independent operators making moves outside the five families of traditional publishing…It’s another indie noir star-studded line up. The man behind Ford Fairlane, rock and roll detective—Rex Weiner, has a story in this issue. Tough magazine editor, Rusty Barnes makes his Switchblade deb ..."
"TOUGH. These are not your mother's crime stories. Collecting established writers as well as newcomers to the indie scene, Tough aims to bring readers excellent stories in a dynamite package. This anthology contains 14 hardcore pieces from some of the indie scene's best talent."
Ridgerunner (A Killer from the Hills Novel) von RustyBarnes Paperback, 154 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2016 von 280 Steps ISBN-13: 978-82-93326-86-1, ISBN: 82-93326-86-7
"For fans of Larry Brown, Daniel Woodrell, Scott Smith, Donald Ray Pollock and Scott Phillips, this rural noir set in northern Pennsylvania features a world in which the natural gas industry has raped the land and made billionaires out of farmers and small time criminals alike. Investigating a deer-poaching incident that lands him in deep trouble--with a broken ankle and multiple bullet wounds--wildlife conservation officer Matt Rider f ..."
"Editor Andrew Scott (Naked Summer) brings together twenty-four authors to share their stories of bruised eyes and hearts, busted dreams and guitars, drunken nights and sober truths. Lee K. Abbott, Rusty Barnes, Victoria Barrett, Robert Boswell, Karen Brown, Eugene Cross,Jennine Capó Crucet, Murray Dunlap, Roxane Gay, Becky Hagenston, Holly Goddard Jones, Victoria Lancelotta, Sarah Layden, John McNally, Kyle Minor, Debra Monroe, Darlin' ..."
Half Crime von Barnes, Rusty Paperback, 182 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2024 von Redneck Press ISBN-13: , ISBN:
"PRAISE FOR HALF CRIME "The characters in this collection have been brought low by circumstances or their own actions, but Rusty Barnes is clear-eyed and compassionate in telling their stories, which can be grisly or heartbreaking or-most ..."