Chapter 16 — an affiliate of the Library of Congress’s National Center for the Book founded by Humanities Tennessee, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities — just published a review of Citizen Carl. I couldn’t be more thrilled.
The review by David Wesley Williams recounts Carl Magee’s rollicking exploits as a journalist and urges readers to delve into the book and “see if you don’t find that its themes — facts vs. lies, corruption, public feuds as spectator sport — still resonate today.”
I hope they do.
Williams is the author of the novels Everybody Knows (JackLeg Press, 2023) and Long Gone Daddies (John F. Blair, 2013). His short fiction has appeared in Oxford American, Kenyon Review Online, and in Akashic Books’ Memphis Noir.
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