{"id":150664,"date":"2025-07-23T12:01:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T17:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=150664"},"modified":"2025-07-23T12:01:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T17:01:53","slug":"square-books-welcomes-author-lee-clay-johnson-for-the-darkly-comic-bloodline-friday-july-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/square-books-welcomes-author-lee-clay-johnson-for-the-darkly-comic-bloodline-friday-july-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Square Books Welcomes Author\u00a0Lee Clay Johnson for the Darkly Comic\u00a0BLOODLINE Friday, July 25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This summer, County Highway<\/a><\/strong><\/em> is taking to the road for its first ever roadshow, a two-month-long tour featuring a rotating cast of the newspaper\u2019s editors and contributing writers with stops at 35 independent bookshops and brick-and-mortar stores nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Touching down at Square Books<\/strong> in Oxford<\/strong> on July 25 at 5:30 p.m.<\/strong>, the tour will also offer audiences a sneak peek of Panamerica\u2019s debut title Bloodline<\/strong><\/em>, a gothic Appalachian tale from Sue Kaufman Award-winning author Lee Clay Johnson<\/strong>, in conversation with the esteemed Gary Fisketjon<\/strong>, literary editor for County Highway<\/em> and Panamerica Books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mesmerizing and darkly comic,\u00a0Bloodline<\/em>\u00a0is an exploration of masculinity run amuck, of femininity\u2019s strength and resolve, of the burdens of heritage and history. This novel is Lee Clay Johnson working at the height of his lyrical powers\u2014a bravura performance.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Founded by David Samuels<\/strong> and Walter Kirn<\/strong> in the wake of the pandemic, County Highway<\/em> is a magazine about America in the form of a 19th-century newspaper<\/strong>. Printed six times a year and distributed across all fifty states and Canada, it has reached an annual circulation of 150,000 in just over a year, with over 20,000 subscribers and bookstand readers \u2014 a testament to the heartiness of the printed word and the American voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dubbed \u201c<\/em>America\u2019s Only Newspaper,\u201d <\/em>the magazine features hairy off-road adventures by some of America’s best and strangest writers; reports on the myriad of political and spiritual crises that are gripping our country and their deeper cultural and historical sources; regular columns about agriculture, civil liberties, animals, herbal medicine, and living off the grid, both mentally and physically; essays about literature and art; and an entire section devoted to music. Our pages offer a road-side banquet of American humor, common-speech, and social and political insights in every issue, and have proven that wherever there\u2019s a stop sign, there\u2019s a story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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