From his debut volume Poachers, through his novels Hell at the Breach and Spunk, Tom Franklin's reputation has grown steadily. His newest Crooked is the story of a white man perhaps unjustly ostracized by his community as a murderer and the local black constable who had been his childhood friend. Franklin and his wife the poet Beth Ann Fennelly have courageously collaborated on a novel titled World Which Is To Be, released in the fall of 2013. Don spoke with Tom at Northeast Community College in Rainsville, AL.