After spending some time with Andy Weir on Mars (and after slogging through the weirdness of Still Life with Woodpecker), I wanted to read something a bit more mundane. I’d never heard of The Long Home or William Gay, but Goodreads thought...
After I finished Facing the Music last year, I didn’t see myself becoming a huge Larry Brown fan. That short story collection is good enough, but it’s not spectacular and no way near as intriguing as the man himself. Joe, though! Joe is...
Larry Brown has been on my radar for a few months, thanks to my friend Jacob, who clued me into a Youtube preview of a documentary about him. I was intrigued: Here’s this guy from the sticks of Mississippi, a firefighter, who sits down one day...