“If Jack Kerouac had written crime novels, they might have sounded a bit like this.”—Geoffrey O’Brien
“A dignified and impressive addition to your bookshelf that reveals James’s virtuoso performance in a genre he helped to define, refine and elevate.” — The Commercial Appeal
“Scene by scene, he’s a great storyteller, like Dickens before him and like, God help us, Stephen King in our own day.” — NPR
“Dawn Powell is a supremely deserving candidate for admission to The Library of America.”— Atlantic Monthly