Buttered Side Down: Stories of Small-Town Luck
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Stories about people the magazines did not print: a manicurist, a fat woman, an out-of-work actor, a girl who eats at the cheap end of the counter. Ferber was a reporter at seventeen and later won the Pulitzer for So Big; the title says it — this is the toast landing the other way, and she wrote it before anyone would have called it social realism. Fifty-eight plates of city life by painters like John Sloan and George Bellows, from park drives to rooftops, give these stories of ordinary people their period face.
Stories about people the magazines did not print: a manicurist, a fat woman, an out-of-work actor, a girl who eats at the cheap end of the counter. Ferber was a reporter at seventeen and later won the Pulitzer for So Big; the title says it — this is the toast landing the other way, and she wrote ...
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Edna Ferber (1885–1968) was an American writer who began her career as a reporter in Wisconsin. She published her first novel, Dawn O'Hara, in 1911, and went on to produce a series of story collections and novels, including Buttered Side Down, Emma McChesney and Co., Fanny Herself, and One Basket.
Edna Ferber (1885–1968) was an American writer who began her career as a reporter in Wisconsin. She published her first novel, Dawn O'Hara, in 1911, and went on to produce a series of story collections and novels, including Buttered Side Down, Emma McChesney and Co., Fanny Herself, and One Basket.
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