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THIS PUBLICATION HAS NOT BEEN PREPARED, APPROVED, OR LICENSED BY ANY ENTITY THAT CREATED OR PRODUCED ANY SONG OR BOOK WRITTEN BY JOHNNY CASH. THIS PUBLICATION HAS ALSO NOT BEEN PREPARED, APPROVED, OR LICENSED BY ANY PART OF THE JOHNNY CASH ESTATE. THE FICTION SECTION OF THIS BOOK IS SOLELY A WORK OF FICTION. NAMES, CHARACTERS, PLACES, AND INCIDENTS ARE THE PRODUCT OF THE AUTHORS’ IMAGINATIONS AND ARE USED FICTITIOUSLY. ANY RESEMBLANCE TO ACTUAL EVENTS, LOCALES, OR PERSONS, LIVING OR DEAD, IS COINCIDENTAL.
ANY LYRICAL USE IN THE CUSIC ESSAY HAS BEEN REVIEWED AND APPROVED BY ROBERT SULLIVAN, A TRUSTEE OF THE CASH ESTATE.
“Fred” Copyright © 2006 by Lauren Baratz-Logsted & Greg Logsted
“Tumbling” Copyright © 2006 by Gayle Brandeis
“Things Might Happen” Copyright © 2006 by Gretchen Moran Laskas
“One More Wrong Thing” Copyright © 2006 by Russell Rowland
“Reno” Copyright © 2006 by Tiffany Lee Brown
“JC Was the First Goth Kid” Copyright © 2006 by Steven A. Hoffman
“The Walls, Texas—1987” (Excerpted from The Greenest Grass) Copyright © 2006 by Amanda Nowlin O’Banion
“The Snow Chaser” Copyright © 2006 by Peter Cashwell
“Terminal” Copyright © 2006 by Kyle Duane Hebert
“Beat Back the Drowning Tides” Copyright © 2006 by Emily Reardon
“The Girl from Boulder Ridge” Copyright © 2006 by Vernell Hackett
“The Train Stops” Copyright © 2006 by Adam-Troy Castro
“Does It Ever End?” Copyright © 2006 by Bob Batchelor
“Walkin’ Contradiction: Johnny Cash and American Ambivalence” Copyright © 2006 by Leigh H. Edwards
“Johnny Cash and C. S. Lewis” Copyright © 2006 by Don Cusic
“Nothin’ Short of Dyin’ Half as Lonesome as the Sound” Copyright © 2006 by Laurel Snyder
“Ring of Fire: Love and Longing” Copyright © 2006 by Alison Stine
“Saul (and Cash) on the Road to Damascus: The Man in White” Copyright © 2006 by Edward J. Rielly
“The Man in Black on DVD: A Selected Filmographic Essay” Copyright © 2006 by Robert G. Weiner
“Johnny Cash and the Criminal Mind: The Man in Black’s Expansion of the Public Crime Narrative” Copyright © 2006 by Todd M. Callais
Additional Materials Copyright © Bob Batchelor
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Literary Cash : unauthorized writings inspired by the legendary Johnny Cash / edited by Bob Batchelor.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-9352-5160-6
1. Cash, Johnny. 2. Cash, Johnny—Fiction. I. Batchelor, Bob.
ML420.C265L57 2006
782.421642092—dc22
2006032612
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