Nashville Chrome

Award-winning novelist Rick Bass riffs on the real-life saga of the Brown siblings, two sisters and a brother who experienced a brief flare of country music hits in the early 1950s. Digging into their commonplace yet sensational lives, he creates a melange of fact and fiction that is a Louisiana Hayride of the mind.

May 23: Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow died on this day in 1934, gunned down in a police ambush on a road in the north Louisiana woods. The Barrow Gang's crime spree was short and small time, but the young "celebrity bandits" were…

Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin

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