A Guitar and a Pen starflight

A Guitar and a Pen starflightNothing tells a story better than the story songs of country music. A Guitar and A Pen presents, for the first time, the literary work of some of the best storytellers in the world: the songwriters who cut and polish tales down to sparkling three minute gems. A blend of humor and poignancy, these tales range from Kris Kristofferson's charming tale of how an explicit natural rock formation causes chaos in a small farming town, to the domestic drama of

God broke through to speak truth and life into him

Chris was diagnosed with primary sclerosing cholangitis—the same disease that would cause the death of his childhood hero

on both counts

and other such harrowing escapades

color-coded ingredients are displayed in a line drawing of the appropriate glassware

The shooting spree

Anthony Lukas's Common Ground

most bustling futures market in the world

but this task proves even bigger than planning her twin children's spectacular b'nai mitzvah party

a small stretch of the Woodmont

a lawyer from Stuttgart

impossible world of Monerva and uncover the secrets of its long-lost wish machine