Ancient Hours News Today

The following is excerpted from Michael Bibles novel, The Ancient Hours , a fable of the American South in the highest tradition. Bibles work has appeared in the Oxford American, The Paris Review Daily, and Al-Jazeera America, among others. He is a former bookseller at Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi, and lives in New York. Another night at the Starlight Diner and Ms. Rivers takes our orders. The horizon is a black sliver against the sun. All our old mysteries unite. Our coffees get cold. W...