Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin, By Andre Dubus III, W.W. Norton & Company, 274 pages From "cottonmouths coiled in the trunks of cypresses and live oaks, Spanish moss hanging so low my grandfather ...

Mr. Dubus has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, The National Magazine Award for Fiction, Two Pushcart Prizes, and he is a 2012 recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in ...