Brutal South

I mention a lot of books in the Brutal South newsletter. I'll keep this Bookshop page updated with some of my favorites, and you can help support my work (and your local independent bookstore) by ordering a copy here.

George Masa's Wild Vision: A Japanese Immigrant Imagines Western North Carolina
My Body and Other Crumbling Empires: Lessons for Healing in a World That Is Sick
Devil House
Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer
The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell
Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil
Bliss Montage: Stories
The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air: Three Godly Discourses Between the World and Me How to Have an Enemy: Righteous Anger and the Work of Peace
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Nonfiction

The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century Split Tooth The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell
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Fiction

Black Eggs: Poems by Kurihara Sadako Beowulf: A New Translation When We Say "Hiroshima": Selected Poems Volume 23
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Poetry

Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed The Strange Birds of Flannery O'Connor: A Life The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse
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Kids

Modern Architecture: A Critical History
Red State Revolt: The Teachers' Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics
Beowulf: A New Translation
Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Stories of Horror
Suffering
Dinner
Oval
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World