Things I generally don't like: --Contemporary Southern authors who seem to consciously mine Faulkner in writing about the south--Contemporary writers those who explore the racial tensions of the 20th century Deep South. --Writing about the afterlife and the communion of the living and the dead. ...
I am not sure what readers who enjoyed Watson's stories in this collection see that I didn't. Aside from the general set-up (which doesn't ever amount to plot or character sketches or anything resembling an artistic statement or plain, simple point) in the titular "Last Days of the Dog-Men" and ...