Josh Green

Dirtyville Rhapsodies Josh Green 1st edition

Do you really know your neighbors, America? Look again. Look closer. This darkly comic short story collection focuses on ordinary people caught in all manner of conundrums, fiascoes, and legal dilemmas, much of it their own stinking fault. Set mostly in Atlanta (capital of the "Dirty South"), Dirtyville Rhapsodies features everyday folks who overcome vice and personal tragedy, scoundrels so foul they attract news headlines, and the wayward souls who find salvation in society's crevasses. Some of them will weave meaning from pratfalls, devastating loss, and downright stupidity. And some won't.

'Best Summer Beach Reads 2013' Men's Health Magazine (reviewed alongside Stephen King and Dan Brown, May 2013).
Finalist for the St. Lawrence Book Award.
Gwinnett Daily Post (author feature, May 2013).
Atlanta Magazine (review, August 2013).

Acknowledgements (stories):
The Baltimore Review: "Missing Athena"
Los Angeles Review: "Pinch Points"
The MacGuffin: "Exultation"
The Adirondack Review: "Clarity"
New South: "The Abduction"
Lake Effect: "Twenty-First Century Itch"
The Midway Journal: "The Bushmaster"
Eclipse Literary Journal: "Hanging Abdul"
Eastown Fiction: "Blood Allies"
Hoosier Writers Anthology 2010: "The Delusional Mister Necessary"
Main Street Rag's "Law and Disorder" Anthology: "The Gulch"
Creative Loafing (Atlanta): "Down and Out at the Breastfeeding School"