Private Lies | Suggested Reading

Private Lies What Do I Read Next?

A Spring-Fed Pond: My Friendships with Five Kentucky Writers over the Years (2001), by James Baker Hall, is a collection of photographs of Mason and four other Kentucky writers.

Bobbie Ann Mason's Elvis Presley (2003) is a short biography of the famous singer and is a good example of Mason's nonfiction.

Minimalism and the Short Story—Raymond Carver, Amy Hempel, and Mary Robison (1999), by Cynthia Whitney Hallett, offers an overview of literary minimalism, looking at some of the stories of the movement's most characteristic writers.

In Country (1985) is Mason's novel of a young Kentucky woman looking for information about her father, who died in the Vietnam War before she was born. This is an excellent coming of age story from a female perspective.