Hundred Proof

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Hundred Proof </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>is a collection of short stories by Scott Wolven whose collection </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Controlled Burn </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>drew comparisons to Ernest Hemingway Raymond Carver and Denis Johnson with the title story selected for </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Best American Noir of The Century </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>by James Ellroy. The stories in </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Hundred Proof </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>give readers more of Wolven's distinct voice exploring crime and the violence that comes with it across a hardboiled landscape. Joyce Carol Oates writes (on the story </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Barracuda</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>) ...defies expectations at virtually every turn as willfully shapeless as life... cuts from scene to scene with the nervous energy of a hand-held camera. For Wolven's men-loggers tree poachers corrupt cops-the impulse to do terrible damage to one another is as natural as watching pit bulls tear one another to pieces for sport.</span></p><p></p>