Joe Samuel Starnes

Forthcoming in paperback April 2026 from University of Georgia Press/NewSouth Books. See my website for preorder links

The first person I showed the paperback reissue of my novel Fall Line I received this week was my mom. She was a longtime English professor Georgia Highlands College, who influenced my reading and writing. Copies will be available from UGA Press on April 15. #novels #Georgia

The origins of my novel Fall Line have deep roots, reaching all the way back to my time as a reporter for The Union-Recorder newspaper in Milledgeville, Ga. Here I am with three state legislators before a candidate forum in 1990. #novels #georgia

The April 15 release date for the paperback of my novel Fall Line from UGA Press is coming up quick. If you want one, please contact your local bookseller and ask them to preorder. If you teach, you can request a copy here ugapress.org/9781588385802/…

@Super70sSports If you did a Canyonero shirt, I know people who would buy it. youtu.be/PI_Jl5WFQkA?si…

Shirts that’ll slap you harder than AM radio jams from the back seat enhanced by your dad’s secondary dart smoke … 👉 @Super70sSports Store

@m_o_walsh Much thanks, Neal. I was working on this one way back when we met at Sewanee. Barry Hannah critiqued one slow part of a draft as “abject naturalism.” I tightened it up.

@JSamuelStarnes Great news, Sam! Congrats!!

Forthcoming in paperback April 2026 from University of Georgia Press/NewSouth Books. See my website for preorder links

It has been more than two years since I coauthored @LethOunBook, but his is a story that will always be inspiring to me. It was 50 years ago this month that his father was executed and the Killing Fields began. facebook.com/share/p/1BECoa…

My new piece about @WillieNelson, the Hillbilly Dalai Lama, in print edition @BitterSouth. (RIP Kris Kristofferson, who passed after this was published listing him as one of Willie's only surviving contemporaries.). First graph here and read more about it bit.ly/4dC3Lo0

@ellen_adair Great meeting you at @CollsBook earlier. Fantastic talk with @KeithOB

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"His memoir, A Childhood, about his impoverished upbringing near Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp, is as powerful an American story as I know.” @DwightGarner on Harry Crews and Rough South novelists via @nytimes 👇 nytimes.com/2024/07/21/boo…

I’m glad to see Harry Crews, Barry Hannah, and Larry Brown getting attention from @DwightGarner in today’s @nytimesbooks, although I order them Larry, Harry, and Barry on my top shelf.

@JasonNark Great story in this morning’s paper

In May, I camped in New Mexico's bootheel for a freelance story and was struck by how quiet it was. I didn't know, at the time, that my summer would go off a personal cliff, but when it did, I thought of the peace and quiet there and wondered if I could find it at home.

The online version of my story "Sanders from Cedartown" available on @GolfersJournal. You can read it as one of three free articles. Being that it's the longest piece the magazine has ever published, you can buy a copy for a more pleasant experience. golfersjournal.com/editorial/sand…

I'm excited to have my story "Sanders from Cedartown" in this issue--almost 10,000 words over 20 pages.

Farewell, Kinkster! It was great to meet you in 2019. texasmonthly.com/arts-entertain… @TexasMonthly

Fifty years ago tonight I was watching the Hammer! In '78 I got his autograph. About 15 years ago, Roger Petersen drew this card. And ten years ago, I wrote this about Hank bittersoutherner.com/hank-aaron-40t… for the @BitterSouth @Braves

Talk about California dreaming!

We didn't win the top prize in non-fiction at the #Audies2024, but it was an honor being there with @JSamuelStarnes & @TimLounibos

Hello from #Audies2024 in Hollywood! Narrator @TimLounibos, coauthor @JSamuelStarnes, and I will be at the awards 8 pm ET Monday. Watch live tinyurl.com/44sbc6ty #LoveAudiobooks

Congrats to A REFUGEE'S AMERICAN DREAM written by @LethOunBook with @JSamuelStarnes, performed by @TimLounibos for being a #Audies2024 finalist in the Non-Fiction category! @audiobooks @TantorAudio