A Miracle of Catfish (73 page)

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The Austin Chronicle

“Brown writes like a boxer—economical, crisp, wounding.”

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Men's Journal

“Nobody does the seamy, boozy, violent side of the modern South better than Mr. Brown.” —
The Cincinnati Enquirer

“Brown is a writer with the eye of a documentarian, his prose aiming for nothing short of ruthlessly capturing the truth of the world in which he has always lived.” —
USA Today

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“‘Read this book.' Read it for the clarity of its prose, the vividness of its imagery … its emotional honesty and its humor … its beauty and its wisdom and its grit. Just read it.” —
The Roanoke Times

“Sometimes it doesn't matter what a writer writes. It's all good. Larry Brown has reached that point in his career.” —
The Orlando Sentinel

“Brown's essays are built out of small, often raw details. His matter-of-fact sentences are simple, even flat; but strung together, flow into rhythms worthy of his favorite blues guitarists.” —
USA Today

“Balances pastoral odes with a clear-eyed accounting of the costs of country living… . These humble, personal essays … provide a glimpse at the long apprenticeship of a writer who came up the hard way.” —
Publishers Weekly

“Brown is the real thing: a self-taught country boy … whose heart is obviously, and wholly, in the country he loves.”

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The Washington Post