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.
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.”
In our morning reading: thoughts on the short fiction of Diane Oliver, exploring a secret Brooklyn bookstore, and more.
In our morning reading: an interview with Tricia Romano, a playlist from Bradley Sides, and more.
In our morning reading: exploring the work of Tananarive Due, a playlist from Eugen Bacon and Andrew Hook, and more.
In our weekend reading: thoughts on Sommer Browning’s poetry, an interview with Luis Alberto Urrea, and more.
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.
In our morning reading: thoughts on Eugen Bacon’s new book, Two Dollar Radio on a recent literary hit, and more.