#colin winnette

[poetsandwriters]

Colin Winnette, author of Users (Soft Skull Press, 2023), in a recent installment of “Ten Questions.” 

[cold-bean-porridge]

February reading

[universitybookstore]

New from Two Dollar Radio and novelist Colin Winnette, Haints Stay.  It’s one of our head-buyer’s recent recommendations.

[colinwinnette]

"Books that feel close to “real life” have a unique tension to them, because some readers can’t help wondering what’s real and what’s not. Although this book is fiction, because of the autobiographical details, I’m sure some readers will read it as if it’s close to some kind of lived experience. That tension is compelling.”

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I had the pleasure of talking with Patty Yumi Cottrell about her fantastic debut novel Sorry to Disrupt the Peace for the Paris Review Daily.

[frammento]

The Job of the Wasp: alienazione e paranoia

The Job of the Wasp: alienazione e paranoia

Appena arrivato all’orfanotrofio, il direttore informa il protagonista che non riceverà nessun tipo di conforto. Non sta mentendo: l’orfanotrofio si rivela da subito ostile, con ragazzi pronti ad attaccare briga o anche solo a prendere le distanze dal nuovo arrivato. E poi, non troppo avanti, si aggiunge la minaccia di un fantasma che ogni anno miete cinque vittime.

Del protagonista e voce…

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[frammento]

I knew the likelihood of her guessing correctly was slim to none, but it is a problem with most humans that they seek to draw you into their understanding of the world and force a fit, assuming your experiences and intentions must be similar to their own, and that they understand you simply because they too have lived a life. I’m not blameless in this regard, but at least I’ve been able to perceive it as a shortcoming, rather than a triumph of perception.

Colin Winnette, The Job of the Wasp

[frammento]

Life consists of extremes, I told myself, screaming into the gag, so there is always the possibility that what is being experienced at any given moment is actually the worst it will ever get, and there is only room for improvement.

Colin Winnette, The Job of the Wasp

[frammento]

Whoever was behind this unraveling scheme had made a plan and put it into action. Things might have come up that they hadn’t anticipated, but they had adjusted to meet the new challenges. They had adapted. Life was worse than random: It was something I wasn’t good at.

Colin Winnette, The Job of the Wasp