Elwin Cotman

• Apr-2010
• / General Fiction
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Fiction. African American Studies. Latino/Latina Studies. Illustrations by Rachel Dorrett. A Washington D.C. punk club gets a visit from very ancient and dangerous guests. The mythic and the mundane collide at a general store in the segregated South....

• Jul-2013
• / General Fiction
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With its intoxicating blend of rock and roll and the supernatural, crazed religion and visionary prose, Hard Times Blues is a wild ride down the same shadowy American sideroads traveled by the likes of Cormac McCarthy, Greil Marcus and Samuel R. Dela...

• Sep-2020
• / General Fiction
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In the title novella, Cotman imagines a group of near-immortals living in Pittsburgh in an uneasy truce with Lord Decay. Their truce is threatened when one of them takes pity on a young woman who knows their secret. In “Among the Zoologists,” a g...

• Apr-2024
• / Literary
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Belletrist Book Club PickFrom Philip K. Dick Award finalist Elwin Cotman, an irresistibly unnerving collection of stories that explore the anxieties of living while Black -- a high-wire act of literary-fantastical hybrid fiction.A rural town finds it...