For those of you already missing its blend of gothic horror, taut characterisation and wire-sharp storytelling, the show’s writer Nic Pizzolatto’s novel Galveston may help fill the void. This weekend saw the end of True Detective’s UK run. FOUR COLLAGES ON LONELINESS katiehamill.Litro #182: Experimental – The Book Fight Chihoi.Litro #182: Experimental – Where Art Thou Heart: Visual Language Lost on Deaf Eyes Jeremy Caniglia.The Slows | Litro Lab Podcast Larry Burns.The Astrology of Numbers | Litro Lab Podcast Alejandra Cabezas.“My Son Was Taught”, “The Orchid of the House” & “We Haven’t Eaten” | Litro Lab Podcast Christopher Bowen.Ella’s Letter to the Editor of the Universe Alan Michael Parker.Obstruct ing the Doors Can Be Dangerous Jane Copland.The Prosecco and the Plunger Toye Oladinni.Litro #183: Place – A Place Called Home jenniferprobst.Litro #183: Place Edition Litro Magazine.Constructed with maximum tension and haunting aftereffect, written in darkly beautiful prose, Galveston announces the arrival of a major new literary talent. Recalling the moody violence of the early novels of Cormac McCarthy and Denis Johnson, this powerful, potent, and atmospheric thriller is impossible to put down. Rocky is a girl with quite a story to tell, one that will pursue and damage Roy for a very long time to come. Any chance that they will find safety there is soon lost. Roy, Rocky, and her sister hide in the battered seascape of Galveston’s country-western bars and fleabag hotels, a world of treacherous drifters, pickup trucks, and ashed-out hopes. The girl’s name is Rocky, and she is too young, too tough, too sexy-and far too much trouble. He takes her with him as he goes on the run from New Orleans to Galveston, Texas-an action as ill-advised as it is inescapable. Yet what the would-be killers do to Roy Cady is not the same as what he does to them, which is to say that after a smoking spasm of violence, they are mostly dead and he is mostly alive.īefore Roy makes his getaway, he realizes there are two women in the apartment, one of them still breathing, and he sees something in her frightened, defiant eyes that causes a fateful decision. Known “without affection” to members of the boss’s crew as “Big Country” on account of his long hair, beard, and cowboy boots, Roy is alert to the possibility that a routine assignment could be a deathtrap. On the same day that Roy Cady is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he senses that his boss, a dangerous loan-sharking bar-owner, wants him dead. From the creator, writer, and executive producer of the HBO crime series True Detective, comes a dark and visceral literary debut set along the seedy wastelands of Galveston.
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