Old Hickory Press is a new publishing venture dedicated to preserving the great traditions of Southern literature represented by Robert Penn Warren, William Faulkner and Eudora Welty.
The first evidence of this commitment is our debut novel, West End , a compelling and classic story by first time novelist Crockett White of a Southern town’s struggle with the end of legalized segregation and the rise of the golden age of progressive politics and the people responsible for it. Picking up where Warren’s All the King’s Men left off, West End extends the fable through another great fall by Humpy Dumpty, the return to a one-party South and the silencing of the region’s once potent voice of cha
Like Warren’s early 20 th century landscape, Crockett White’s 1960s and 70s is littered with human foibles of class distinction, envy, infidelity and corruption. White’s Tate West is every bit as tragic as Willie Stark and his David Arthur as lost and malleable as Jack Burden. And like Warren’s men, their lives are repeatedly pockmarked by frequently delicious but often punitive collisions with interesting women.