Check it! I’m going to be doing a reading from my novel Hungry Rats at the best bookstore in Chicago’s Wicker Park!
Quimby’s Bookstore
1854 W. North Ave
Chicago, IL
Saturday, February 5 · 7:00pm – 8:00pm… Read the rest
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Kissed with curses, I sent my novel Hungry Rats — about a serial killer in Flint, Michigan — to the printer the same week that an actual serial killer struck the city. This is the sort of luck I’ve had all along: I’m invited on a podcast and the server crashes.… Read the rest
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I will be discussing and reading from Hungry Rats at Pages Bookstore in Flint, MI: 132 W. 2nd St., Sat. Nov. 13, 1-3 PM. I’d love to see you there!
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As of today, my novel Hungry Rats is available for purchase! Buy your copy at a launch event (Chicago on 9/10, Flint on 9/16) for a modest discount, or order online today!… Read the rest
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I am very excited to announce the first installment of one of the most dynamic aspects of this project. Gothic Funk Press has finished producing the first of several promotional videos for this novel. It features text from Hungry Rats, includes a new song by Richard Whaling, stars Emily Perkins-Harbin as Meredith Malady, and was shot by Forge 22 and myself.… Read the rest
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In recent updates, I’ve talked about Hungry Rats through the lens of the lumber era, teen noir, and fairy tales. That leaves just two important contexts: serial killers and Flint, Michigan.
Today I’ll tackle Flint.
From Hungry Rats:
… Read the restBy the time the lumberjacks arrived, Flint, Michigan was already decades old.
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From Hungry Rats:
… Read the restIt all comes down to money, that money coursing in from Flint and Saginaw and Detroit. “Bring us lumber!” they bellowed. “Bring us lumber, and don’t trouble to worry for the welfare of those shanty boys, whether they work an honest day or lop the ends off the logs.
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Now Flint is the second city in Michigan to have its very own Wikipedia photo mosaic: check it out.… Read the rest
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Almost to the end.
I’m allowing myself a closing argument.
Flint has been in decline since before I was born, and very soon almost the entirety of its residents will only remember the city’s downfall. In the last fifty years, the population has halved, and Flint has gone from an expansionist vision of a future that saw it eclipsing competing cities to the possibility of demolishing whole neighborhoods that have emptied out.
… Read the restEvent: The Closing of Flint Central (Part 4 of 4) Read More »
