Nashville Chrome

Some people get Rick Bass, others don't. Just when I thought I did, I came across this one. Different, but also good. It has a quasi biography, quasi short story collection, quasi novel feel to it. What it does well (in keeping with his written works about everything from hunting trips to oil rigs t......more

"Show me don't tell me" seems like a rule the author has set out to deliberately ignore and flaunt, as the entire "novel" is more like a huge creative writing exercise in how to string together endless paragraphs of similes and reflections. No one really does or says anything; instead, the author sp......more

Rick Bass has written glorious, thick, rich and deep stories and nonfiction about the West, as well as The Diezmo, a slim novel about a band of would-be militia conquerors of Mexico sent by Sam Houston on a mission that goes horribly wrong. So it was a surprise that he went to the deep South and to......more