Guest Post – When an Old Friend Comes Back To Haunt You
I was recently asked by my friends at LGBTQ Reads to write a guest post on their site. WHEN AN OLD FRIEND COMES BACK TO HAUNT YOU: A GUEST POST […]
Bart Yates (aka Noah Bly) is the award-winning author of seven novels, including Leave Myself Behind, The Language Of Love And Loss, The Third Hill North Of Town, and The Very Long, Very Strange Life Of Isaac Dahl. He is also a professional musician, and plays clarinet, saxophone, and bass guitar.
I was born in Cheyenne, WY, raised in Lamoni, IA, educated in Boston, MA, and now live in Iowa City, IA, with the world's finest and most discerning cat. I sometimes teach writing workshops at the University of Iowa's Summer Writing Festival, and I also teach private music lessons in my home studio.
” When I’m not writing or teaching, I usually can be found with a book in one hand and a glass of wine—or a cup of coffee—in the other.”
I was recently asked by my friends at LGBTQ Reads to write a guest post on their site. WHEN AN OLD FRIEND COMES BACK TO HAUNT YOU: A GUEST POST […]
I wrote a list of book recommendations for Shepherd.com that was just published recently. The best books with funny, wiseass narrators and ridiculously dysfunctional families
For those of you who were not able to make some of my readings or chats, you’re in luck! We have recordings of some of them. Please see the links […]
COMING JULY 23, 2024
Both sweeping and exquisitely intimate, award-winning author Bart Yates blends historical fact and fiction in a surprising, thought-provoking saga spanning 12 significant days across nearly 100 years in the life of a single man, beginning in 1920s Utah.
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From the acclaimed author of the award-winning Leave Myself Behind comes a witty, touching, deeply satisfying new novel about a man who has no choice but to turn back and find himself . . .
Meet seventeen-year-old Noah York, the hilariously profane, searingly honest, completely engaging narrator of Bart Yates’s astonishing debut novel. With a mouth like a truck driver and eyes that see through the lies of the world, Noah is heading into a life that’s only getting more complicated by the day.
With his stunning debut novel, Leave Myself Behind, Bart Yates announced his arrival as a major new talent in fiction. Now, with that same searing wit and heartbreaking lyricism, he explores the explosive, unshakable bond between two brothers and the one summer that changes their lives forever.
Award-winning author Bart Yates has established himself as a formidable writer gifted with rare insight, depth, and talent. Now, in an unforgettable new novel, he presents a blistering portrait of a troubled family, of bonds that can be battered but never broken, and of the friendships that can make us whole again.
Set against the turbulent backdrop of the 1960s, Noah Bly’s evocative debut explores prejudice, loss, and redeeming courage through the prism of an unlikely friendship.
A witty, haunting tale of family and friendship, regret and redemption, set on a remote Wyoming cattle ranch in the dead of winter.
One of the strengths of Yates’s writing is his ability to work out complicated plot points and weave together the threads of the story in a dramatically effective manner.
Brilliantly written and funny as hell.
Yates effectively captures the honest, sometimes silly, often tender interactions between his fragile characters.
Imaginative and thought-provoking.