fiction

I bought Where Did You Sleep Last Night almost on launch day, something I never do. I’d heard about the book from my illustrator friend Lola Landekic, who designed the absolutely spectacular cover,[ref]It’s seriously one of the best book covers of 2015. Those carnations![/ref] which is incredibly polished, on point thematically, and successfully, refreshingly, bucks a ton of boring, outdated trends in cover design. Lola has also illustrated several of Crosbie’s pieces for the online magazine Hazlitt. The premise was just as interesting as the cover: a suicidal Kurt Cobain fan named Evelyn Gray wakes up in a hospital room next to a young man named Celine Black[ref]Crosbie likes to mess around with gender norms when naming her characters for this book.[/ref] who seems to be either Cobain himself, reincarnated, or somehow possessed by Cobain’s spirit. The two of them fall madly in love almost instantly and proceed to create… Continue Reading →