Music Monday, Halloween Edition: Bad Things by Jace Everett

It is Halloween week, and what better Halloween song than the theme song for True Blood, HBO’s Southern Gothic vampire show?

Country Noir: The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living by Martin Clark

As an expert on the many aspects of mobile home living, I thought this book would be right up my alley.  And while it sadly neglects the many aspects of singlewide living, focusing on its more urbane brother, the doublewide, I was not disappointed.

In this masterful debut, Martin Clark proves to be the heir apparent of great Southern raconteurs and the envy of more seasoned novelists as he takes us on a frantic tour of the modern south.

Hung over, beaten by the unforgiving sun, bitter at his estranged wife, and dreading the day’s docket of petty criminal cases, Judge Evers Wheeling is in need of something on the morning he’s accosted by Ruth Esther English. Ruth Esther’s strange story certainly is something, and Judge Wheeling finds himself in uncharted territory. Reluctantly agreeing to help Ruth Esther retrieve some stolen money, he recruits his pot-addled brother and a band of merry hangers-on for the big adventure. Raucous road trips, infidelity, suspected killers, winning Lotto tickets, drunken philosophical rants, and at least one naked woman tied to a road sign ensue in The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living, one part legal thriller, one part murder mystery, and all parts all wild.