Where Did You Sleep Last Night, by Lynn Crosbie

Where Did You Sleep Last Night detail

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cover, which is incredibly polished, on point thematically, and successfully, refreshingly, bucks a ton of boring, outdated trends in cover design.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 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 their own drug-fueled interpretation of Kurt and Courtney’s tragic romance. What could possibly go wrong? I’m glad you asked. This is only my second encounter… Continue Reading