Imagine you’re a fly on the wall in the writers’ room for The Last of Us. Even awesome, what if you’re one of the writers toughing it out, deciding if Ellie lives or Joel carks it, and how to reckon with Abby before she does anyone in?
The Genesis of “Afro-Centered Futurisms”
Afro-Centered Futurisms: A vibrant and approachable book by award-winning authors of black speculative fiction
an essay by Eugen Bacon
It started with a read: Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century by Isiah Lavender III and Lisa Yaszek (eds), published by Ohio State University Press. I put down this book and contemplated it.
Two Excerpts From Eugen Bacon’s Collection “A Place Between Waking and Forgetting”
Today, we’re pleased to present an excerpt from Eugen Bacon’s new collection A Place Between Waking and Forgetting, set to be published later this month. Its publisher, Raw Dog Screaming Press, describes it as “dark speculative fiction, an Afro-Irreal collection in which transformative stories of culture, diversity, climate change, unlimited futures, collisions of worlds, mythology, and more, inhabit.”
Morning Bites: Diane Oliver’s Fiction, Secret Bookstores, Corey Farrenkopf on the Uncanny, and More
In our morning reading: thoughts on the short fiction of Diane Oliver, exploring a secret Brooklyn bookstore, and more.
Morning Bites: Tricia Romano on Media History, Eugen Bacon’s Next Book, Bradley Sides’s Playlist, and More
In our morning reading: an interview with Tricia Romano, a playlist from Bradley Sides, and more.
Morning Bites: Tananarive Due’s Influence, Tomoé Hill Interviewed, En Attendant Ana Returns, and More
In our morning reading: exploring the work of Tananarive Due, a playlist from Eugen Bacon and Andrew Hook, and more.
Weekend Bites: Sommer Browning’s Poetry, Interviewing Luis Alberto Urrea, Jessi Jezewska Stevens Fiction, and More
In our weekend reading: thoughts on Sommer Browning’s poetry, an interview with Luis Alberto Urrea, and more.
The Art of Collaboration: Eugen Bacon and Andrew Hook on “Secondhand Daylight”
Every writer writes each book a little differently from the one before it. When authors collaborate on a novel, that sense of reinvention increases exponentially. For collaborators Andrew Hook and Eugen Bacon, creating the new book Secondhand Daylight involved challenges large and small. The two writers discussed their process for working together on a very distinctive novel of time travel, and shared an excerpt from it as well.