Matt Barton

“His mother said she had to use the wagon that afternoon, but she’d drop him off wherever he was going. “I’m going to the Red Key,” he said. “Where?” “The Red Key,” he shouted. “Over on College and Fifty-fourth Street.” “The tavern?” “It’s a bar.” “You’re going there in the afternoon?” “I’m meeting a guy.” “Are you sure they’re open—in the afternoon?” Sonny took a deep breath. “I’m sure.”
― Dan Wakefield, Going All the Way: A Novel

“Exodus.” Troi echoed the word. “That term has weight, Mister Zade. It speaks to the migration of an entire population. Is that what is happening here?” Zade looked down. “It is.” “But why are you doing this?” Vale frowned, unable to grasp the scope of it. “Where are you going to go?” “Do not be concerned, Commander.” Zade moved toward the turbolift. “This quadrant, these stars… They are no longer a place where my people feel welcome.”
― James Swallow, The Dark Veil

“Going All the Way is about what hell it is to be oversexed in Indianapolis, and why so many oversexed people run away from there. It is also about the narrowness and dimness of many lives out that way. And I guarantee you this: Wakefield himself, having written this book, can never go home again. From now on, he will have to watch the 500-mile Speedway race on television.”
― Dan Wakefield, Going All the Way: A Novel

“The preacher said Madge’s spirit belonged to Irvington, and Irvington must be there for her memory: “Let us not forget that in coming here today we have not fulfilled our obligations of friendship,” he said. In the days, weeks, and years ahead, the family “will need us as never before”
― Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them