Jokers Are Wild (on If the River Was Whiskey by T. Coraghessan Boyle; Comedians by John L’Heureux; The People I Know by Nancy Zafris; & Dreams of Distant Lives by Lee K. Abbott)

Greg Johnson, whose reviews have appeared regularly in our pages across many years, has published two novels, five collections of short stories, and several volumes of nonfiction. He lives in Atlanta and teaches in the graduate writing program at Kennesaw State University.