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Book cover for Distant Sons
All this and junior high in the fall—from kings to twerps in three months flat—and none of it is anywhere near their minds as they stand in the dusk, summer’s smell of glove leather in the air, smell of their own dusty, sweaty, ...more
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“Linda waited, knowing Knox would fill the silence. On average, men tended to interrupt a woman after eight seconds. If a woman didn’t talk, most men couldn’t last four seconds, according to social scientists with government funding and a stopwatch.”
Chris Offutt, The Killing Hills

Jim Thompson
“There is only one plot—things are not what they seem.”
Jim Thompson

“The making of Night Moves is the story of the collaboration of two artists of starkly different sensibilities – Alan Sharp the hopeless fatalist, Arthur Penn the agitating progressive. Each was just beginning to descend from his peak of cultural relevance.”
Matthew Asprey Gear, Moseby Confidential: Arthur Penn’s Night Moves and the Rise of Neo-Noir

S.A. Cosby
“Folks like to talk about revenge like it’s a righteous thing but it’s just hate in a nicer suit,”
S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

John Galligan
“There is a man you see in casinos, usually small, usually dressed by JCPenney, usually not a gambler, who creeps around in soft shoes with a smile of fascination stuck on his face and the body language of a Peeping Tom. He dreams of sniffing your armpits. Or he wants to sit where you just sat. All while he wears his JCPenney costume and speaks in harmless drivel.”
John Galligan, Bad Axe County

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