Marie Buck
UNSOLVED MYSTERIES
by Marie Buck
Marie Buck’s new Roof Book Unsolved Mysteries collects a group of short prose pieces that mashup stories from the television show Unsolved Mysteries and her reminiscences growing up in rural South Carolina. Buck’s work unravels not only the mysteries of the TV series, but also how American popular culture portrays the working class.
GOODNIGHT, MARIE, MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOUR SOUL
by Marie Buck
There is no other book quite like Marie Buck’s Goodnight, Marie, May God Have Mercy on Your Soul. Its tight economy of language and demotic vocabulary imply an almost diaristic simplicity. Any normality you might expect is interrupted and overwritten by recurring images of fantasy, transfiguration, and violence.