(Fiction Novel, 200pages). A tour de force run through social depravity, cultural isolation, and many things submarginal...with an insane family of hillbillys, living on an isolated mountain in Arkansas, supporting themselves thru various means, such as the theft/sale of junkyard scrap metal and the production of moonshine + unknown substances...all while doing extremely weird shit to kill time in the Great American Southern Backwoods.
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By Dege Legg
Oct 15, 2009
"Letter From: Johnny Awesome" Jan 28, 2006 So I was reading The "Battle Hymn" on a plane... and this elderly lady was reading over my shoulder with a puzzled curiosity until the chapter about fucking electrified snakemeat. The look on her face was magical. Then she whispered to her husband and didn't look in my direction for the rest of the flight.
"Insane Rednecks" This is great stuff. At first, it took me a chapter or two to get the rhythm of Dege's characters' speech, this backwater Louisiana drawl that he captures with this modernist stream-of-thinking writing. But once I got the voice in my head, every episode was hilarious. My favorite was "Junkyard Love", the story of a band of hilbillies smashing and junking cars. It's hilarious and best read in a Camaro up on blocks with some Skynard playing.
