The classic proletarian crime novel based on Pretty Boy Floyd's life, now in print for the first time since 1936. Most closely compared to William Anderson's Thieves Like Us, in my opinion Cunningham's Pretty Boy is a much better book. We get priceless visions of rural life in 1930s eastern Oklahoma, trips to speakeasy bars in Muskogee, and scenes of the Tulsa underworld. (From the Introduction by James Murray)

James Murray's The Long Rifle Season is a collection of stories both historical and contemporary. Some of the stories could be described as revisionist westerns, others as character studies or as literary sociological explorations of the past and present of Indian Territory in its many incarnations. There is no doubt that The Long Rifle Season stands among the best of the grit lit / rough South genre: fatalistic in humor, devoid of romanticism, anti-nostalgic, unwaveringly truthful, deeply authentic.