Tom Franklin

• May-2012
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• Oct-2010
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In the 1970s. Larry Ott and Silas "32" Jones were boyhood pals in a small town in rural Mississippi. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry was the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, black single ...

• May-2010
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'The Alumni Grill Anthology of Southern Writers' has grown out of Sonny Brewer's 'Southern Writers Reading' series in Fairhope, Alabama, and is the companion volume to Brewer's 'Stories from the Blue Moon Café', now in its fourth year. This year's G...

• Sep-2006
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It's 1911 and the secluded southwestern Alabama town of Old Texas has been besieged by a scabrous and malevolent character called E. O. Smonk. Syphilitic, consumptive, gouty and goitered, Smonk is also an expert with explosives and knives. He abhors ...

• Aug-2005
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The Alumni Grill' Anthology of Southern Writers has grown out of Sonny Brewer's Southern Writers Reading series in Fairhope, Alabama, and is the companion volume to Brewer's 'Stories from the Blue Moon Café', now in its fourth ye...

• Jan-2005
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• Dec-2003
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In 1897, an aspiring politician is mysteriously murdered in the rural area of Alabama known as Mitcham Beat. His outraged friends -- -- mostly poor cotton farmers -- form a secret society, Hell-at-the-Breech, to punish the townspeople they believe r...

• Jun-1999
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An Edgar Award winner, Tom Franklin's Poachers collects ten stunning, bleak tales set in the woodlands, swamps and chemical plants along the Alabama River. Staking his claim as a fresh, original Southern voice, Tom Frankin's lyric, deceptively sim...

• Sep-1991
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These stories reflect a people and their region - the southern Alabamians of the mobile Bay area. The works derive from various writers' experiences of the fifties, sixties, seventies and eighties. Notably, these essays and stories were written not o...