Chris Offutt

About

Chris Offutt grew up in Haldeman, Kentucky, and lives near Oxford, Mississippi. He is the author of four books of fiction, including Country Dark, and three books of nonfiction. His work has been included in many textbooks and anthologies, such as Best American Essays, Best American Short Stories, and the Pushcart Prize 2017. Reach him at offuttchris1@gmail.com.

Articles

Issue 81, Summer 2013

Bible Cake

Since I undertook to build a Bible Cake, I needed all the luck I could muster. So I composed an advance list of words to use under culinary duress, language that would not offend the Lord, the cake,...

By Chris Offutt

Baked Possum

By Chris Offutt

Chicken Eggs

By Chris Offutt

Bourbon and Cheese

By Chris Offutt

Issue 86, Fall 2014

CIA Cake & Jeff Davis Pie

Essential rules for cooks and spies: Discard your failures swiftly. Identify saboteurs. Keep your top recipes secret.

By Chris Offutt

Issue 88, Spring 2015

Trash Food

I was transforming outward shame into inner fury. Without a clear target, I aimed that rage at myself.

By Chris Offutt

Making the Water

By Chris Offutt

Slim Jims and Monster

By Chris Offutt

A Bird in Hand Is Worth Nothing to the Bird

By Chris Offutt

Savory Deviate Delight

By Chris Offutt

Moon Balls

By Chris Offutt

Issue 96, Spring 2017

Chicken Cordon Blue Bloods

Three years after his death I began watching Blue Bloods exactly as my father had—alone at night, sitting in a recliner.

By Chris Offutt

Magic Banana

By Chris Offutt

The Country Sausage That's Going To Town

By Chris Offutt

The Echo of an Echo Is an Echo's Etcetera

By Chris Offutt

Nobody Likes Me

By Chris Offutt

Lard Have Mercy

By Chris Offutt

Issue 104, Spring 2019

Salt and Prepper

By Chris Offutt