Heavenly Days

Over the course of twenty years and seven novels James Wilcox has established himself as one of the most distinctive and beloved voices of the South, a comic master whose work has been praised by writers as diverse as Robert Penn Warren and Anne Tyler. From Modern Baptists—which was both included in Harold Bloom’s Western Canon and featured in GQ’s list of the forty-five best books published in the last forty-five years—to Plain and Normal, he has charted the collision of the stubbornly gen...