{"id":2124,"date":"2019-05-17T16:40:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T20:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.berea.edu\/appalachian-center\/?p=2124"},"modified":"2019-05-21T15:41:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T19:41:51","slug":"work-write-and-dont-forget-to-live-advice-from-appalachian-author-brooks-rextroat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.berea.edu\/appalachian-center\/2019\/05\/17\/work-write-and-dont-forget-to-live-advice-from-appalachian-author-brooks-rextroat\/","title":{"rendered":"Work, Write, and Don\u2019t forget to Live: Advice from Appalachian Author Brooks Rextroat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<span data-contrast=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2126 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.berea.edu\/appalachian-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/05\/Brooks-1-295x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.berea.edu\/appalachian-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/05\/Brooks-1-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/legacy.berea.edu\/appalachian-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/05\/Brooks-1.jpg 434w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/>In April\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0had the pleasure of welcoming Brooks\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Rexroat<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, author of<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the novel\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Pine Gap<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and his most recent work\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Thrift Store Coats<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> a collection of short stories. <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Rexroat<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0received his Master\u2019s in Fine Arts from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He was a 2014 Bread Loaf\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Bakeless<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Camargo Fellow in Cassis, France and a 2016-2017 Fulbright Scholar at Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University in Siberia, Russia.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Rextroat\u2019s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0novel\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Pine Gap<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0follows the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Eskills, a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0hard working Letcher County family who value their faith and family above all else. Enoch <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Eskill<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0works long shifts in the mine while his wife spends her days cleaning houses, all of their effort and income going towards helping their youngest daughter, Jamie, realize her dreams of obtaining a college education.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">We<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> are so fortunate to be able to bring writers from all over Appalachia, like Brooks Rextroat, to the Loyal Jones Appalachian Canter (LJAC).<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">One of my earliest memories<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0in LJAC came\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">during\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">my very first semester as<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0a student at Berea College.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">My class<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> visited the Appalachian Center for a <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">bell hooks reading.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0It was my fi<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">rst of many readings. E<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">very semester LJAC brings in talented writers from all over the region and beyond.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">But what<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0comes before the beautifully polished prose that we exper<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ience once a writer\u2019s at the podium<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">? What about the days sp<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ent crafting their work from the sweat of their brow.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Rexroat<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0was kind\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">enough<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0to sit down and ponder this question with me.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On when and where he prefers to write he said, \u201cWhen time and place allows. If you have seven minutes then you have seven minutes to sit down and edit.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">All too often we let our imaginations get the best of us, we think of writers in sunlit offices maybe on a mountaintop, or looking out at their favorite city\u2019s skyline. It\u2019s easy to overlook the diligence and discipline these artists put into their craft<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0on a daily basis.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Rexroat<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0continued<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0say<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ing<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, \u201cIt\u2019s not a thing where you have to get everything perfect. You weave it in with other aspects of your life.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Rexroat<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0is not only a published author and educator, he also advises a literary magazine, a newspaper, and him and his wife coach Track and Field. One of his final pieces of advice on writing, \u201cBe good to other writers. This is a community.\u201d A lesson we can all take to heart, in both art and our\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">everyday<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0lives.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Article Written by Rick Childers[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In April\u00a0the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center\u00a0had the pleasure of welcoming Brooks\u00a0Rexroat, author of\u00a0the novel\u00a0Pine Gap\u00a0and his most recent work\u00a0Thrift Store Coats a collection of short stories. Rexroat\u00a0received his Master\u2019s in Fine Arts from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He was a 2014 Bread Loaf\u00a0Bakeless\u00a0Camargo Fellow in Cassis, France and a 2016-2017 Fulbright Scholar at Novosibirsk State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":2126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gravy-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Work, Write, and Don\u2019t forget to Live: Advice from Appalachian Author Brooks Rextroat - Loyal Jones Appalachian Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Work, Write, and Don\u2019t forget to Live: Advice from Appalachian Author Brooks Rextroat - Loyal Jones Appalachian Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In April\u00a0the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center\u00a0had the pleasure of welcoming Brooks\u00a0Rexroat, author of\u00a0the novel\u00a0Pine Gap\u00a0and his most recent work\u00a0Thrift Store Coats a collection of short stories. 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