Currie’s new novel, “The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne” is simultaneously completely different and exactly the same as “Everything Matters!” which seems impossible, but to me ...

When first we meet the title character of Ron Currie’s superb “The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne,” it’s 1968 and 14-year-old Babs, of Waterville, Maine, is grieving her soldier ...

Ron Currie's new novel, "The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne," tells the story of a small-town drug mobster, a formidable woman of French descent. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Currie about it.

The problem is, he has run out of credits to sustain the charge. Loading Postecoglou vowed last year to accept a “noble death”, should that be the fate that befalls him, in quotes that now ...

Ron Currie's new novel, "The Savage, Noble Death Of Babs Dionne," is set in a French-speaking section of Waterville called Little Canada. What's it like? RON CURRIE: (Reading) You would have said ...