Description
Fiction. African American Studies. Latino/Latina Studies. Illustrations by Rachel Dorrett. A Washington D.C. punk club gets a visit from very ancient—and dangerous—guests. The mythic and the mundane collide at a general store in the segregated South. A young boy becomes apprentice to the Angel of Death. In Elwin Cotman's Carl Brandon Award-nominated debut collection, the humorous mixes with the historical and the epic mixes with the deeply personal. Cotman combines the language of high fantasy, urban fantasy, black folklore, teen angst, punk rock and horror to create American fairy tales with landscapes all their own.
"Elwin Cotman is one of the most original new voices you will encounter—he is a synthesizer of the domestic and the fantastic, of soaring myth and the grittiest realities, of lewd dialect and high lyricism. His stories are profound engagements with suffering of every stripe—they will also make you hoot with laughter. I was amazed by the force of Mr. Cotman's pinwheeling imagination."—Karen Russell
Author Bio
Elwin Cotman is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the author of two fantasy story collections published by Six Gallery Press: THE JACK DANIELS SESSIONS EP (2010) and HARD TIMES BLUES (2013). He is as old as the movie Purple Rain. In 2005 he received his BA in Creative Writing from the University of Pittsburgh, and received his MFA from Mills College in 2012. He is a former resident of the Cyberpunk Apocalypse Writers' Cooperative. He currently lives in Lafayette, Louisiana, where his favorite local food is catfish.
Author City: LAFAYETTE, LA USA