Politics & the English Language

Starred Review for The Marble Orchard

Alex Taylor’s wonderfully bloody Kentucky noir The Marble Orchard received a starred review in Kirkus:

“Taylor’s understanding of place, ‘ancient beyond all measure and remote beyond all reckoning,’ and the hard people who ‘walk around with the dark all their lives until they are the dark’ echoes the cultural dissections of Daniel Woodrell and James Lee Burke. A brilliant debut.