This is a story collection by the Missouri writer Daniel Woodrell, best known for Winter’s Bone, which of course brought Jennifer Lawrence into our lives. I feel like anytime you mention an American Southern writer–and yeah it gets complicated when you’re talking about Missouri, I know–you are compelled to mention what state they’re from. That’s why we all know Faulkner is from Mississippi along with Larry Brown and Eudora Welty; we know that Georgia gave us Flannery O’Connor and Alice Walker; we think of Zora Neale […]
“We are the farting children of Heaven, blessed be our slippery viscera”
Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman