Come Again No More

Meet Charley Hull, erstwhile newspaper reporter, the latest casualty of a dying industry, and the voice of...
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Come Again No More by Williams, David Wesley

Come Again No More

$19.00

Come Again No More

$19.00
Author: David Wesley Williams
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Meet Charley Hull, erstwhile newspaper reporter, the latest casualty of a dying industry, and the voice of David Wesley Williams's most personal and poignant novel yet. Come Again No More is an elegy with heart and gallows humor, told in Charley's lyrical and oft-profane voice. It begins with a wake and ends with a rebirth, and in between, we see Charley confront the man who fired him, comfort himself with entirely too much bourbon and song, and cope with what's left of a life given to a job he's loved and lost. Along the way we meet Charley's colleagues, from the old columnist Madison, a bulldog of a reporter who wrote-and drank-like an Irish poet, to the talented young James Ricketts, whom Charley fears will "do something romantic" like throw himself into the Mississippi River. One will die by his own hand, but Charley bottoms out and gets back up, with the help of old friends and a new love. Come Again No More is Southern literature with shades of Charles Portis (like Charley Hull, and the author, a former Memphis newspaper reporter), but also with a whiff of the Irish to it-think the playful language and place-as-character of Joyce's Ulysses ("Good puzzle would be cross Memphis without passing a barbecue joint.") or the riotous blasphemy of Roddy Doyle's Barrytown books.



Author: David Wesley Williams
Publisher: Jackleg Press
Published: 11/10/2025
Pages: 196
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d
ISBN: 9781956907193

About the Author
Williams, David Wesley: - David Wesley Williams, a native Kentuckian now living in Memphis, Tennessee, is the author of the novels EVERYBODY KNOWS (JackLeg Press, 2023) and LONG GONE DADDIES (John F. Blair, Publisher, 2013). His short fiction has been published by the Oxford American, Kenyon Review Online, and such literary journals as The Common and The Pinch. His stories have also appeared in the Harper Perennial collection FORTY STORIES and Akashic Books' MEMPHIS NOIR. He plays the musical saw in a cowpunk band called Citizen Cain't. Most of this is true.

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