The Badlands Saloon Reviewed by Library Journal

Twingley, Jonathan. The Badlands Saloon: An Illustrated Novel. 2009. Scribner. 224p. ISBN 978-1416-58706-4 $30.

Curl up with Twingley's debut novel, and you may feel a little like you're at the titular scene: the Badlands Saloon is the local hang-out bar in placid Marysville, ND, where Oliver Clay, an art student hired to work at the local bike shop, whiles away a three-month summer recess from New York City. In Marysville, Clay is reunited with Tank Wilson, an old friend and the manager of...