![]() ![]() So when the city’s Great Magician starts appearing in odd places and essential songs are forgotten, Perry knows trouble is afoot. Perry knows Nola’s rhythm as intimately as his own heartbeat. To those from Away, Nola might seem strange. ![]() A place of sky trolleys and dead cabs, where haints dance the night away and Wise Women help keep the order. One of the Best Fantasy Books of 2022: New York Times Oprah Daily Vulture Gizmodo Boston Public LibraryĪ fun and fantastical love letter to New Orleans unfolds when a battle for the city's soul brews between two young mages, a vengeful wraith, and one powerful song in this wildly imaginative debut. "Magical, lyrical, gritty, otherworldly…hype like Bayou Classic in the 90s."-P. "A wild and wonderful debut, teeming with music, family and art."- New York Times "Funny, wild, witty, and profound.”―Victor LaValle ![]()
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![]() ![]() Dalloway-that Clarissa Dalloway should have been the one to kill herself, for example. Yet if you are a reader, this pleasure can be drawn out for only so long. As long as it remains unread, the story can be anything-free, immortal, drowsing between white sheets. Krook in his unchanging grease spot, always to look the same, never to raise a hand differently. There is a pleasure to be had in putting off the classics as soon as you open Bleak House, you foreclose all other possibilities of what it could be, and there sits Mr. Yet I put off To the Lighthouse for a long time, in order to live in delicious anticipation of it. Dalloway is about some lady, The Waves is about … waves, To the Lighthouse is about going to a lighthouse-turned out to be basically accurate. ![]() ![]() My premonitory sense of what her novels were about- Mrs. I knew what she looked like and what had happened to her I knew that her books took place inside the human mind and that I had my whole life to enter them. I had met Virginia Woolf before I ever opened her books. Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Golden Delicious" in An Apple for the Creature anthology, Cat o' Nine Tales (Sept 4, 2012) "Cajun With Fangs" in Cat o' Nine Tales, Have Stakes Will Travel "Blood, Fangs and Going Furry" in Cat o' Nine Tales, Cat Tales ![]() "Easy Pickings" (2011) ~ Faith Hunter, C.E. "Signatures of the Dead" in Strange Brew, Cat o' Nine Tales, Have Stakes Will Travel (July 7, 2009) "Haints" in Cat o' Nine Tales, Have Stakes Will Travel "Cat Tats" in Cat o' Nine Tales, Cat Tales "The Early Years" in Cat o' Nine Tales, Cat Tales "WeSa and the Lumber King" in Cat o' Nine Tales, Have Stakes Will Travel ![]()
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