{"id":21990,"date":"2015-02-12T10:30:36","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T15:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=21990"},"modified":"2015-10-20T12:51:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T17:51:26","slug":"this-side-of-the-river-author-interview-signing-at-square-books-mon-216","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/this-side-of-the-river-author-interview-signing-at-square-books-mon-216\/","title":{"rendered":"This Side of The River – Author Interview – Signing at Square Books Monday, March 2, 2015 at 5 pm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ole Miss Professor Jeffrey Stayton publishes his first book, a Civil War novel of nostalgia, redemption, and a posse of women hell-bent on revenge.<\/span><\/p>\n

by Newt Rayburn<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Coinciding with the Sesquicentennial of the end of the Civil War, Ole Miss Professor Jeffrey Stayton<\/strong> is set to release his first novel, This Side of the River<\/em>, February 15 on Neil White<\/strong>\u2019s Oxford-based Nautilus Publishing Company<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"JeffreyStayton_photoNewt\"<\/a>Stayton\u2019s fiction is set in summer of 1865, after the collapse of the Confederacy. Told from the perspective of multiple narrators, the story chronicles a group of widowers from Georgia who are mad as hell at Union General William Tecumseh Sherman<\/strong>, after losing everything but their lives during the infamous Sherman\u2019s March<\/strong>. The women form a posse and decide to travel to Lancaster, Ohio<\/strong>, for the purpose of giving the General <\/span>a taste of his own warfare and seek to burn down his home. Stayton\u2019s tale explores themes of trauma, revenge, redemption, and the disorder known as \u201cnostalgia,\u201d or \u201csoldier\u2019s heart.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeffrey Stayton grew up in Texas, but eventually moved to Mississippi and earned a Ph.D. in English at Ole Miss<\/strong>, where he currently teaches. Stayton lives in Midtown Memphis, Tennessee<\/strong> and commutes to Ole Miss to teach. Jeffrey is a scholar of Modernist, Southern, and African-American literature, often teaching women\u2019s literature courses as well. When he\u2019s not teaching or writing, Stayton can be found in his Midtown studio working on oil paintings, a passion that was renewed after hiking 500 miles on the Camino de Santiago <\/strong>in Spain.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stayton writes poetry, has written reviews for The Missouri Review<\/em> and has published stories in StorySouth<\/em>, Lascaux,<\/em> and Burningword Literary Journal<\/em>. His original story \u201cPepper\u201d won the Bondurant Award for Fiction<\/strong>, and his story \u201cChisanbop\u201d appeared in the Best of Carve Magazine<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stayton spent eighteen years writing and rewriting This Side of the River<\/em>. During that time he spent many hours researching Civil War history, battles, and diaries. Jeffrey travelled the South to Civil War hot spots and retraced General Sherman\u2019s March through Georgia and the Carolinas.<\/span><\/p>\n

An audio book of Jeff\u2019s novel is also under production now, featuring locals Rory Ledbetter<\/strong>, Darby Burghart<\/strong>, Rachel Stayton<\/strong> (no relation), and Whit Hubbard<\/strong>, as well as actors from the Hattie Lou Theater <\/strong>and Chatterbox Audio Theater<\/strong> in Memphis.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeffrey Stayton will be reading and signing copies of his novel at Square Books<\/strong> in Oxford, Mississippi<\/strong>. The signing was scheduled for Monday, February 16, 2015 \u00a0but was\u00a0cancelled due to weather conditions. It has now been rescheduled for Monday, March 2<\/strong> at 5 pm<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span>
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\"general-william-sherman1-711035\"<\/a>What drew you to writing about the Civil War?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m a Faulkner scholar; when I first read Faulkner over twenty years ago, I was fascinated by his version of the Civil War. I grew up in Texas and usually Texas history kind of supersedes anything like the Southern roots of Texas\u2014it\u2019s all cowboys and ranching more than anything Civil War related. But that whole trauma Faulkner wrote about really fascinated me. It showed up obviously here where I\u2019m writing about the aftermath of the Civil War. Part of what drew me in was reading novels like A Light in August<\/em>, where you can just see the shambles that their whole lives are afterwards.<\/span><\/p>\n

I had a really good history professor of the Civil War named Alwyn Barr. He was great because he exploded a lot of the myths that usually were kicked around\u2014that it was just some states\u2019 rights issues, if it was a football game, and he was like, \u201cNo.\u201d Every argument he could trace back to slavery in this matter-of-fact way, so any of the mythology was kind of taken out of the equation as I was doing my research. He taught at Texas Tech. He was a Civil War scholar; he also wrote an amazing work on black Texans\u2019 history, and he started getting me fascinated about black cowboys as well. There\u2019s a slave from a cattle ranch who\u2019s a cowboy, and that shows up in [the novel]. I\u2019m really indebted to a lot of professors I\u2019ve had over the years, whether they\u2019re creative writing instructors or scholars, because they really had an impact.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I understand that you travelled to a lot of Civil War sites in Georgia.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I did a whole driving tour of Sherman\u2019s March\u2014Atlanta to Savannah\u2014but also through the Carolinas. You have something as simple as the hoofmarks embedded in a small church in some small town in Georgia, because the officer decided to stable his horses [there]. Little details like that were really important to pick up on. And I got the lay of the land in a way that you just can\u2019t do any other way.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve found that with the Civil War, it\u2019s one thing to read about it, it\u2019s another thing to go there and see where it actually happened. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Obviously Shiloh, because this is where my central character, Cat Harvey, goes through the battle when he\u2019s a teenager and gets the shellshock, which was called nostalgia or soldier\u2019s heart back then. Scouting out that whole well-preserved battlefield was really amazing. I even brought my wife out there, and she doesn\u2019t have much of an interest in the subject necessarily, but she really appreciated it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A real photograph from 1863 of several members of Terry\u2019s Texas Rangers, a famous band of Confederate Cavalry. Jeffrey Stayton\u2019s character Cat Harvey is a member of the group in the novel, This Side of the River.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Everything changed when I stood on that battlefield. You were talking about PTSD, how does that relate to this book and the Civil War?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

After 9\/11, I had a talk with my father, whom the novel\u2019s dedicated to, about whether I should drop out of graduate school if they call for troops and enlist, which is something I was kind of cagey about. But that was such a shock. I had a neighbor who [said], \u201cIt\u2019s like Pearl Harbor all over again.\u201d He was a World War II vet, and I [thought], \u201cAlright, what do I do?\u201d My dad [encouraged] me to ask questions and hold off on running out and signing up. So, while there\u2019s quite a number of people who were able to forget about Afghanistan and Iraq and things going on there, I\u2019d stay up on it. The thing that really struck me is that you had troops coming home [who], because of advances in medicine, survived their wounds; whereas before they\u2019d have been dead. On the one hand, that was a good thing. On the other hand, you had these wounded warriors suffering post-traumatic stress disorder and it was something that I got really fascinated with, because the one thing that Civil War histories\u2014whether they\u2019re memoirs or letters\u2014they\u2019re not able to talk about that. Because of the language of honor and glory, they have to mask a lot of that stuff. When I read about the regiment that Cat Harvey is from, Terry\u2019s Texas Rangers, it was like wholesale slaughter at Shiloh.<\/span><\/p>\n

They were using Napoleonic tactics with back-then modern weaponry, so horses and soldiers alike were just butchered. So that got me thinking. You\u2019re supposed to think of war in these particular terms, but war in fact is waste. Or as Sherman said, \u2018It\u2019s all hell.\u2019 So how do you reconcile those two things? As I kept reading, I discovered about a death squadron, kind of like a black ops organization called Shannon\u2019s Scouts. There are a few websites on them, and what little diaries they kept, they were doing a lot of extermination against Sherman\u2019s bummers during the march\u2014it was really a horror show. I thought, \u201cHow would a teenager metabolize all that? Committing war crimes?\u201d That\u2019s what led me into those directions\u2014different soldiers would come home, and you hear about the suicides, or about them committing crimes, or acting out in domestic violence, and all sorts of horrific stuff. That\u2019s something I was aware of in a way that I probably wouldn\u2019t have been had I not been giving it serious thought after 9\/11.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Re-examining that idea with the Civil War?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, just kind of filling in the blanks. In the 19th century, if you admitted that you suffered those traumas then you were admitting you were a coward instead of actually admitting you were wounded\u2014you were suffering a brain injury or simply doing something that we\u2019re not supposed to be doing, which is killing and being killed, and some things that go against why we\u2019re here on earth, I think.<\/span><\/p>\n

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You read a lot of Civil War diaries. Could you find that in there?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Yes. For instance, I have a whole box of material I collected from various archives, whether it was county archives, or the Austin State Archive, or various other places, and I got obsessive with all of it, and it was great. It was like a huge jigsaw puzzle that I wanted to piece together, and I even created a document where five days out of every week of the Civil War, I knew what the regiment I was researching was doing. The diaries are where you usually experience a little more honesty. [In] the memoirs, there would be an awareness that it\u2019s a public statement of the regiment, and so you get different levels. What was really affecting was a guy named Frank Bachelor and his brother-in-law, George Turner. They join the regiment and go through maybe three years of the Shilohs and the Chickamaugas, and everything in between, and then George dies of camp sickness. That\u2019s how most people died for the longest time\u2014not so much on battlefields, but in the sick towns. The tone in Frank Bachelor\u2019s letters goes from having a heroic spin on things, trying to make sense of the war in optimistic terms, to [losing] his best friend\u2014brother, really\u2014and how do you go on? Things like that give you access to what\u2019s in the heart of a lot of these men. They really thought that they were fighting a second independence, they thought it originally was going to be over [in] like six months, and [they\u2019d] be home by Christmas. They had no idea what they were getting into. Then, of course, by the end, with Sherman\u2019s March, you inaugurate total war, and you have black ops that they\u2019re participating in.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"ThisSideoftheRiver\"<\/a>So that\u2019s where your novel picks up, at the end?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, at the end of the war. I didn\u2019t think it was going to be a post-Civil War novel. For the longest time it was Civil War, and I was doing all this writing related to that, until my dad read Cold Mountain<\/em>. I think he\u2019s the only one in America who\u2019s somewhat dissatisfied by it, and I was intrigued. I\u2019ve taught it; I think it\u2019s a really great Civil War novel. So I [said], \u201cReally Dad, why didn\u2019t you like it?\u201d What I gathered was that he read the back cover and had a different idea of what it was going to be, but when I pushed him a little, he said something really amazing. He [said], \u201cI wanted a novel about what happened after these guys were done. How did they get home?\u201d If you\u2019re stuck in North Carolina and you\u2019re trying to get back to Louisiana or Texas, what goes on along the way? I started chewing on that, and what was an 1861 novel flipped into a month-after-1865 story. That\u2019s where I started seeing the shape of this one, where I had Cat Harvey and some of the guys he\u2019s with; what they <\/em>did back then was discovered the gold, which gets talked about in this novel. That whole world is kind of post-apocalyptic. I\u2019m a McCarthy fan, too, so I enjoyed that kind of tone. That\u2019s another reason I dedicated it to his memory\u2014because he\u2019s my dad, but also he was the one who really set me on a path for telling this story.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I noticed right off the bat that every chapter has a different narrator, which is very interesting.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s funny, the mosaic style. As I Lay Dying<\/em> is obviously the most famous of that, but another novel I really love is Feast of Love<\/em> by Charles Baxter, and he does that [style] as well. In this novel, you have people who show up for half a page and disappear forever, or you have widows who might recur four or even seven times in short chapters. I like that kind of style, it\u2019s almost like theatre in the round. It made the most sense to me, and I was able to sustain it. I really enjoyed, too, [that] the portrait of Cat Harvey is fragmented, fractured, and kind of has the feel of a cubist painting, which is who he is. So I really felt like that form was the way to go, even though there are characters in there I would love to find out their full stories. My wife, who is a writer as well, wants to write about Darkish Llewellyn\u2014and I kind of like the idea of her taking over and telling the full story of Darkish.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Without giving away too much about the book, does the posse ever make it to Ohio?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what I\u2019ll say: They make it to Ohio, alright. And General Sherman narrates the last chapter.<\/span><\/p>\n

And that\u2019s all I\u2019ll say.<\/span><\/p>\n

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And you are a painter? Would you consider that your main art, or is it more of a hobby?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I hiked northern Spain with my wife; it was her dream to do the Camino de Santiago, and it was like six weeks covering 500 miles. You get insights when you go on that kind of a pilgrimage, and you have a different mindset because you\u2019re taken out of your norm. Some of them are not very deep, but some can be pretty profound. [For me], one of them was that I\u2019d been working on writing as my primary identity, primary objective, for like 25 years, and painting and art had kind of taken a back seat. While I was hiking, I was thinking, \u201cWhy am I not making more time for this?\u201d So I kind of like the idea that maybe this is the only novel I write. Maybe this is enough and [I\u2019ll] at least take a victory lap with the book tour and anything else that comes about before I think about cranking out another one. So the time I used to spend writing, I\u2019m now spending in my art studio in midtown, in the Cooper-Young area. It\u2019s funny, it\u2019s this thing I loved when I was a kid and did obsessively. Somewhere in the teenage years it got put off to the side and never went away, and I never had a good reason for it. I had to get my head clear just to examine that.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Herman Payton did the cover art for your book?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I believe so.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I know him from way back. He used to hang out at the Hoka Theatre. It\u2019s a beautiful cover, but I was kind of curious why you didn\u2019t do some art for it.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

That was the funny thing. We had this idea, Neil [White] and I, and my wife helped with the cover as well. I really love looking at the old tin-types that soldiers would take of themselves\u2014usually early in the war\u2014you didn\u2019t have time or energy for that sort of stuff by the end. Usually as they\u2019re about to leave for future battles, they take some type of tin-type of themselves with their firearms. So we liked the idea of doing something similar with that. We got [Brooke and Ashley Fly] together for a photo shoot. I guess it was this weird kind of 19th century Charlie\u2019s Angels<\/em> for a little while, but we actually got a lot of great shots.<\/span><\/p>\n

Who do you think will most appreciate this book and want to read it?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Actually I have this hunch that the grumpy old men who like the typical Civil War fiction might pick it up and then think, \u201cThis is not what I thought,\u201d because they\u2019re looking for a football game version of events. I think that either their wives who are better read or their teenagers who want something more subversive might pick it up, and that [could] actually be where it carries. I was a student of Barry Hannah and Tom Franklin, and I think this is very Smonk<\/em>-ish\u2014I don\u2019t know if Tom would want me to say that, but he blurbed it\u2014and [it has] that kind of carnival-esque version of events, I think. I\u2019ll tell you this much, I listen to not a whole bunch of old-timey Civil War songs to get me in the mood. I listened to 1970s and 1980s heavy metal. I used to be in a metal band when I was a kid, and that put me in the mood. So I\u2019d listen to some Black Sabbath here, or I\u2019d listen to Iron Maiden\u2019s \u201cChildren of the Damned,\u201d with my coffee and everything else, just hit the keyboard from there.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What kind of metal band were you in?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I think Guns \u2018N\u2019 Roses was our favorite band, but we didn\u2019t approximate them, we just did what we could. We still talk and I\u2019m going to give them copies of my novel.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What was the band called?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

High Treason.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Where were you from?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Houston. We never made it out of Montgomery County. But it was almost like my first love. Some people had a girlfriend in high school…my girlfriends were great, but my band, we just had all that passion and breakups, and the bromance, or whatever you want to call it. My wife wouldn\u2019t let me bring drums into the home, I kind of miss them.<\/span><\/p>\n

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You\u2019re also doing an audio book. Tell me the characters you\u2019re narrating.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m doing three of the narrations: Smit Harvey, who\u2019s a drunk, a gambler, and he would rather be in the 17th century\u2014and that was a lot of fun to do.<\/span><\/p>\n

I also narrated the Ringmaster, who\u2014I would give too much away if I try to explain who he is\u2014but that was a lot of fun, being him. I also narrated Sherman.<\/span><\/p>\n

I hired actors in Memphis and Oxford, and even one in Tupelo, and they\u2019ve been great. Rory Ledbetter did Ethan Briarstone, which was a really important part, plus two of his students\u2014Rachel Stayton (no relation), and Darby Burghart. Rachel\u2019s doing Brianna O\u2019Quinn, so she has an Irish brogue; I was lucky to find her. Darby is doing Darkish Llewellyn, which was a very hard part for me to cast, just because my wife loves that character so much and I can\u2019t miss-cast it, otherwise I\u2019m sleeping on the couch. So they\u2019re connected with Ole Miss. Whit Hubbard also read a part, he\u2019s an instructor in the English department, and he\u2019s a writer as well, so I gave him a small part that he had a lot of fun with, too.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Memphis, Hattie Lou [Theater] Actors, Chatterbox [Audio Theater] Actors, played different parts. The only one I had to farm out was a friend of mine in Ithaca, New York, [who] is a really good actor. I was having a really hard time finding Uncle Calsas, the black cowboy, who\u2019s about 60 years old, and I said, \u201cDo you want to try it?\u201d He nailed it, and I was so grateful, because that was a very hard part to cast.<\/span><\/p>\n

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When does the audio book come out?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m hoping it\u2019ll be April or May. We\u2019re wrapping things up in February. I love it\u2014it\u2019s been a lot of fun. It\u2019s the closest I\u2019ve ever felt to being a film director. There are all these moments where the brutality or whatever, the emotional stuff that I wrote about\u2014I wasn\u2019t detached writing it, but the register of it sometimes hits me when the actor or actress is performing. So something that maybe I should have felt while I was in the business of writing and revising finally hits home; that\u2019s been an amazing process.<\/span><\/p>\n

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When I started reading the book, I was thinking that it would be a great short film or something. You get a feel for the characters right away.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

That would be the best thing, seeing what would happen. How to film it? That would be the hard part. And my name\u2019s on it, so I would be very picky about whose hands it would be in, but that would be great. Little Game of Thrones<\/em> money. Neil [White] would be really happy with that, too.\u00a0 \"The<\/a>
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This is the extended version of an interview which was originally printed in The Local Voice<\/em> #222 (published February 5, 2015.)<\/span>
\n To download a PDF of this issue (also the extended interview), click here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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