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David Menconi recounts Ryan Adams' Raleigh yearsnew

Often funny, sad and poignant at the same time, Losering distills all the tales you might've heard about the booze- and drug-addled nervous wonder of Whiskeytown into 100 or so brisk pages.
INDY Week  |  Grayson Currin  |  09-19-2012  |  Nonfiction

Clyde Edgerton's new novel, The Night Train, is his best in yearsnew

The Night Train is very much about the slow, pained shift in race relations during one important moment, but its 200 pages speak to life, not laws.
INDY Week  |  Grayson Currin  |  07-29-2011  |  Fiction

The Many Lives of Actor, Redneck and Congressman Ben Jonesnew

Jones has been a Southern cavalier of sorts all his life, whether being the poor Southern boy marching for racial justice in Chapel Hill or demanding that The Dukes of Hazzard reflect the South as it existed instead of as created by Hollywood writers and producers.
INDY Week  |  Grayson Currin  |  06-19-2008  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

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