The blind man and his guide move away down the narrow streets of the small, dead town.

NEWYORKER: See the Other Side

Not least because in the dead man's pudgy hands he finds a gold cross, ornately worked and made to hang upside down in the way St Peter was said to have been crucified.

ECONOMIST: New fiction

" All leading up to the punch line: As they watch sorry Old Peg and his sad-sack horse and crumbling buggy ramble down the road and out of hearing range, Allen Gore, known for being a dead-serious man, puts his arm around his son and deadpans, "There goes your future, Albert.

CNN: Excerpt: 'The Prince of Tennessee: The Rise of Al Gore'