This novel is billed as a revisionist Western, and it’s certainly a far cry from the typical romance of lone gunmen fighting off savage bandits to the swooning gratitude of defenseless frontier towns. But as historical fiction, it’s not at all far off from the reality of the Western United States during the turn of…
Ten-year-old Dean Teranova does not want to be in New York City in the summer of 1957. His father, a third-rate conman, has burned all their bridges in Florida though, so now their family is back in a city where juvenile delinquency is becoming more and more of a problem. Dean discovers this firsthand when…
A Child Went Forth follows 13-year-old Charlie Griffin’s evolvement from boyhood to manhood in the summer of 1855 as he carries money from Brooklyn to Missouri to give it to the abolitionist leaders there—all the while he is being hunted by a ferocious crew of adversaries. It is an entirely new look at the era, at…
Last episode, Ruston Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) walked out of the interview with Detectives Gilbough (Michael Potts) and Papania (Tory Kittles). They had confronted him with photos placing him at crime scenes, peering over the yellow police tape. Following the sacrifices to the Yellow King. Marty Hart (Woody Harrelson) was back with his family, and the…
