A Master of Fact
…still, fifteen or twenty quail, couple of coveys, will come and go around. The gray fox don’t come nearer than the swamp there, but I’ve had coons come in here;…
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Spooky Smart
A tortured father suffering from post-traumatic stress. Precocious twin daughters drawn to an abandoned greenhouse. A secret society of women who grow herbs for nefarious purposes. A great Victorian pile…
Extra Innings
In the final days of regular season play last week, the post-season dreams of several major-league baseball teams turned, as always, upon sudden explosions. There were good explosions, like that…
Defeating Dementia
The title character of Walter Mosley’s The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey is a ninety-one-year-old man physically trapped in a filthy Los Angeles apartment and figuratively trapped within dementia, a…
The Beat Goes Down
Like many Southern towns in 1963, Starke, North Carolina—the setting of Clyde Edgerton’s tenth novel—is divided by a railroad running north to south. East of the track is white and…
Backwoods Noir
There’s an old saying in Tennessee and a few neighboring states, trotted out whenever new statistics are released on education funding, meth addiction, teen pregnancy and similar indicators of social…
