Wes Browne talks with George Singleton about crime fiction, encountering characters in the courtroom, and his latest novel

Wes Browne talks with George Singleton about crime fiction, encountering characters in the courtroom, and his latest novel

♦
Issues, Winter 2025 ♦
When it was published in early January, Wes Browne’s second novel They All Fall the Same sparked instant buzz online. The Southern noir thriller brings back Burl Spoon, a central character from Browne’s 2020 debut Hillbilly Hustle, whose cannabis empire is still going strong in Jackson County, Kentucky after three decades.…
Read More→
Poems by John Brooks

Poems by John Brooks

♦
Summer 2023 ♦
Met In an orca-colored room, we glare into a jungle which is actually Paris. I tell you I loved Rousseau when I was a young man; I am a young man and love Rousseau, you say. His half-coy beast, concerned with repast and eyeing something delicious on Bonnard’s adjacent terrace,…
Read More→
Relief, Relief

Relief, Relief

♦
Winter/Spring 2023 ♦
She’d heated the ham in the fellowship hall that morning. It had been that blue time of the morning, and the swamp in front of the church was still chirping with frogs. She had let herself into the side door of the church—it was a vinyl-sided building built like a…
Read More→