Kirk Curnutt

“Raising Aphrodite: A Novel”Author: Kirk CurnuttPublisher: River City PublishingPages: 413$26.95 (Hardcover)In Rogers and Hammerstein’s musical…

Curnutt is a good-natured man but not a comic writer. I had hoped, and for a few pages felt, that "Dixie Noir" was something lighter. It seemed at first…

There is no question about whether Curnutt's first novel is well done. Breathing Out the Ghost has already won the Independent Publishers bronze medal for…

A drug-crazed redneck is heading down the highway with his kidnapped girlfriend in the trunk. A nervous middle-aged man is driving on a date, and a…