Yellowhammer Press

At best, Erskine Caldwell is a poor man’s William Faulkner.  His early novels, which somehow maintain a toehold in the canon of Southern Literature, are extensively populated with caricatures of rural Southerners so over the top in their grotesqueness that they are barely readable.
In Tobacco Road, his most well-known work, the Lesters, headed by the [...]

Unless you live under a rock, you’re at least dimly aware that Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol was released recently.  Brown kicked off the esoteric conspiracy craze in 2003 with The Da Vinci Code, a book so unbearably, ploddingly awful that AO Scott of the NY Times called it “Dan Brown’s best-selling primer on how [...]