A man on the gallows can afford to tell the truth

A very nice review of Satan Is Real from Oxford American. This is one of those that means a lot to me, given the quality of writing they continuously put forth. I particularly liked this, because I don’t think I ever found Colonel Loudermilk as unsympathetic as a lot of folks do.

There are the shenanigans of the brothers as children on a farm in Sand Mountain, Alabama, where their stern father, though presented as a strict disciplinarian, becomes quite sympathetic considering the stunts the boys pulled in a time when a tenant farmer earned maybe $200 a year: ruining his hound; ruining a heifer; taking sharecropping money meant for singing lessons and spending it on candy and tobacco.

The rest.