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Darnell Arnoult

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http://www.goodreads.com/darnellarnoult

born

December 19, 1955 in Matinsville, Virginia, The United States

gender

female

website

http://www.darnellarnoult.com

genre

Literature & Fiction, Poetry

influences

Lee Smith, Jill McCorkle, Larry Brown

member since

October 2009

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Darnell Arnoult is the prize-winning author of What Travels With Us: Poems (LSU Press) and the novel Sufficient Grace (Free Press). Her shorter works have appeared in a variety of journals. Arnoult holds an MFA from University of Memphis and MA from NC State, and is a regular faculty member of the Duke Writers Workshop, Tennessee Young Writers Workshop, John C. Campbell Folk School, and Learning Events. Arnoult is a recipient of the Weatherford Award for Appalachian Literature, SIBA Poetry Book of the Year, Mary Frances Hobson Medal for Arts and Letters, and in 2007 was named Tennessee Writer of the Year by the Tennessee Writers Alliance.

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Get to Know Your Neighbors

I've been working away on the novel this weekend, writing, but also organizing all the stuff I've accumulated over the past few years while I've been working on the manuscript off and on. There's a good reason to work every day on a book until it's done. Reacquainting yourself with the pieces of a big story, the lists and notes you've made, the hearts of those people you call characters, all th...

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Average rating: 3.58 · 202 ratings · 49 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Sufficient Grace: A Novel 357 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions	My rating:
	What Travels with Us 400 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Sufficient Grace 344 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2006	My rating:

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Darnell Arnoult gave to: She Flew the Coop: A Novel Concerning Life, Death, Sex and Recipes in Limoges, Louisiana by Michael Lee West (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
This novel is so good. The storytelling is excellent. I love the play with point of view. Even the town itself works as a character. This is my favorite MLW novel thus far. I highly recommend this book to aspiring fiction writers because it is such a...more
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Darnell Arnoult gave to: Consuming Passions: A Food-Obsessed Life by Michael Lee West (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
Good southern storytelling along with some wonderful recipes.
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Darnell Arnoult gave to: Crazy Ladies by Michael Lee West (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
This is a terrific debut novel, and one of the best opening scenes in Southern Literature.
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“If a nuclear disaster occurred, and you had to live out those final painful days just stretched out somewhere thinking about your life--This is who I am. This is what I love. This is what I believe--who would you want hearing your whispers? Or perhaps better: Who do you trust to hear your whispers? Whose breath do you want mingled with your own? Whose flesh still warm beside you?”
― Jill McCorkle

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“You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

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(Est 2008) Calling one & all who love Southern Lit! From classics like Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird to contemporary like Sue Monk Kidd's The Sec...more (Est 2008) Calling one & all who love Southern Lit! From classics like Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird to contemporary like Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees. If you love Southern Lit this is the place for you, whether you want to talk your favorite books, your gardens or just want to talk. Introduce yourself in the "Come sit for a spell & tell us about yourself!" thread & please feel free to get your own threads going. Lurking is not encouraged! If you're not active on a regular basis, you may be removed for inactivity. We gladly welcome authors and hope you're able to participate in our group to interact with fellow readers - Self promotion of your work(s) is fine as long as it is done appropriately and you are also an active member of this group. (Self promo comments of any kind do not count as being active). Active members are those who participate in the discussion threads on a regular basis. I must also ask that you do not nominate your own works for our monthly group reads, especially if you're not an active member of the group. Thank you in advance for your understanding and cooperation. If you're an author who is an active member of SLL's and would like to do a book giveaway, please get moderator approval before posting. Promoting of other online groups in SLL's may not be done without moderator permission and will not be considered if you're not an active member of SLL's for a period of time. Bloggers: If you are an active member of this group and would like to share your blog link with us, please feel free to do so. Active members are those who participate in the discussion threads on a regular basis. Comments promoting your blog and/or giveaways do not count as being active, especially if you're not participating in the other threads on a regular basis. Please accept my apologies as I do not mean to offend anyone or discourage anyone! There isn't a problem with the whole, it is the very few. Thank you so much for your understanding and cooperation. (less)