Night Train, Cold Beer – Short Stories by Guinotte Wise

Night Train, Cold Beer
135 Pages
Pecan Grove Press
ISBN 978-1937302092

Winner of the H. Palmer Hall Award

"...crazy ass, brain-jiggling collection (certifies) that Mr. Wise is the genuine item, an honest to God writer who knows how to put the hoodoo spell on readers, high and low, and no mucking around in the sleepy in-between." -Bob Shacochis, National Book Award recipient, author of Easy in The Islands and The Woman Who Lost Her Soul

"Guinotte Wise's Midwest evokes my own California Coastal upbringing, complete with rodeos (pronounced row-day-ohs where I come from), rural car romps, mystic views of pasts long gone, and lovely windswept landscapes bathed in Americana. It's like Guinotte Wise ate John Steinbeck, made him a part of him, and now old Jack (if you know him as well as I do) is the him of him. Yet these are stories for now. Feed on them and be nourished." --Jamie Iredell, author of The Book of Freaks

"Honest, blunt, wild, piercing, chilling, gloriously cinematic in their distilled heat. Like a whole series of little intense Tarantino movies, but subtler."
--Brian Doyle, author of Mink River

Guinotte Wise

About Guinotte Wise (Kansas City, Missouri & Kansas Author)

Guinotte Wise

Guinotte Wise writes and welds steel sculpture on a farm in Resume Speed, Kansas. His short story collection (Night Train, Cold Beer) won publication by a university press and enough money to fix the soffits. Five more books since. A five-time Pushcart nominee, his fiction and poetry have been published in numerous literary journals including Atticus, The MacGuffin, Santa Fe Writers Project, Rattle and The American Journal of Poetry. His wife has an honest job in the city and drives 100 miles a day to keep it. Some work is at http://www.wisesculpture.com