The thirteen stories in Jason Brown’s Driving the Heart are about driving on, regardless of obstacles and, to a great extent, without a focus on the ultimate destination. These are largely grim tales, full of brain tumors, car wrecks, and lives wasted by booze and drugs, but they are not hopeless ta...
The eleven stories of Jason Brown's collection Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work are linked by their setting in the fictional Maine town of Vaughn, and by their interest in young people navigating treacherous waters (both literally and figuratively). Though presented mostly in the realis...