Long Time Ago Good - White, Lowell Mick
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This story collection-a finalist for the annual first fiction award presented by the Texas Institute of Letters-explores Austin, Texas, a city famous for music, football, and drunken fun frolics- and famous too for traffic jams, anomie, and dislocation. In Long Time Ago Good, Lowell Mick White imaginatively recreates this city, this region. Here is a folksy reporter covering a chitlins cook-off, a ragged cab driver fighting for his life, a lonely jewelrymaker focusing too much on the past-a high tech worker losing her job, a bureaucrat looking for something more. These stories are populated by…mehr

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This story collection-a finalist for the annual first fiction award presented by the Texas Institute of Letters-explores Austin, Texas, a city famous for music, football, and drunken fun frolics- and famous too for traffic jams, anomie, and dislocation. In Long Time Ago Good, Lowell Mick White imaginatively recreates this city, this region. Here is a folksy reporter covering a chitlins cook-off, a ragged cab driver fighting for his life, a lonely jewelrymaker focusing too much on the past-a high tech worker losing her job, a bureaucrat looking for something more. These stories are populated by depressed men, angry women, frustrated dogs, and fearful cats-filled with heat waves and heartbreaks, thunderstorms and belly-laughs: with all that is modern Texas- and America….
Autorenporträt
Lowell Mick White is the author of four previous books: That Demon Life and Professed, novels, and Long Time Ago Good, and The Messes We Make of Our Lives, story collections. His work has been published in many literary journals, including Callaloo, Iron Horse Literary Review, and Still: The Journal. A winner of the Dobie-Paisano Fellowship and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, White received his PhD from Texas A&M University.