Quotes About Tom Franklin

the south where these stories take place—is lower Alabama, lush and green and full of death, the wooded counties between the Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers.

Baseball," he said. "Babe Ruth." Dixie Clay saw now that the boy wore a satchel honeycombed with rolled newspapers. The world was still going on, was it.

the writing process behind The Tilted World.

I realized how lucky I was to have been raised here in these southern woods among poachers and storytellers.

Bob Dylan's 2001 tribute to Charlie Patton.

Smonk ignored the mule for the whore it was, off with the first little shit to put ass to it.