Author Spotlight
The Orange Eats Creeps
Just got this in the mail… kind of really excited about it: The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich, coming from Two Dollar Radio. It speaks for itself I think, I kind of want to marry it for its description alone:
It’s the ’90s Pacific Northwest refracted through a dark mirror, where meth and madness hash it out in the woods. . . A band of hobo vampire junkies roam the blighted landscape—trashing supermarket breakrooms, praying to the altar of Poison Idea and GG Allin at basement rock shows, crashing senior center pancake breakfasts—locked in the thrall of Robitussin trips and their own wild dreams.
A girl with drug-induced ESP and an eerie connection to Patty Reed (a young member of the Donner Party who credited her survival to her relationship with a hidden wooden doll), searches for her disappeared foster sister along “The Highway That Eats People,” stalked by a conflation of Twin Peaks’ “Bob” and the Green River Killer, known as Dactyl.
With a scathing voice and penetrating delivery, Grace Krilanovich’s The Orange Eats Creeps is one of the most ferocious debut novels in memory.
“Like something you read on the underside of a freeway overpass in a fever dream. The Orange Eats Creeps is visionary, pervy, unhinged. It will mess you up.”
–Shelley Jackson“Wandering back and forth between the waste spaces of the Northwest and the dark recesses of its narrator’s mind, The Orange Eat Creeps reads like the foster child of Charles Burns’ Black Hole and William Burroughs’ Soft Machine. A deeply strange and deeply successful debut.”
–Brian Evenson
[You can preorder this book now from Two Dollar Radio for $10. It ships soon I believe.]
Tags: Grace Krilanovich, The Orange Eats Creeps, Two Dollar Radio
I’m working on a review of this for Vol.1 now. I liked it a lot; it gave me the same unsettling feeling that the last section of Evenson’s THE OPEN CURTAIN did. Plus, house shows and convenience-store robberies and psychic drift.
Wow, that does look good. And a blurb from Evenson, too. Nice.
im sure the book is good. the trailer, however, was incredibly obnoxious.
holy shit, this book sounds beautiful
I kind of want to marry it? Come on, now, BB, that is bush league.
hehe im pretty sure typing out ‘bush league’ is even worse.
there’s an excerpt along w/ interview w/ grace on the two dollar site. already pre-ordered and i’m broke as a motherfucker right now. i’ll echo mike young’s statements: holy shit.
if marrying a book is bush league consider me joey the bush
The Jesus says “bush league” and he’s pretty badass.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsEa_M7MqYE&NR=1
oh shit! any book with “poison idea” in the description is an instant buy. i really want to read this now.
It’s a great read. Highly recommended.
i thought the same thing, but vampires instantly negate anything so i’m left feeling neutral
Intense, creepy, and hard to put down. It’s an incredible read. Don’t let your wholesale dismissal of “vampires” get in the way of a great new work. This is something completely different.
I’m working on a review of this for Vol.1 now. I liked it a lot; it gave me the same unsettling feeling that the last section of Evenson’s THE OPEN CURTAIN did. Plus, house shows and convenience-store robberies and psychic drift.
that’s funny alex. i had the same knee jerk aversion to the vampires too.
i have a soft spot for anything portland. i’ll probably end up buying this one.
Wow, that does look good. And a blurb from Evenson, too. Nice.
im sure the book is good. the trailer, however, was incredibly obnoxious.
holy shit, this book sounds beautiful
I kind of want to marry it? Come on, now, BB, that is bush league.
hehe im pretty sure typing out ‘bush league’ is even worse.
there’s an excerpt along w/ interview w/ grace on the two dollar site. already pre-ordered and i’m broke as a motherfucker right now. i’ll echo mike young’s statements: holy shit.
if marrying a book is bush league consider me joey the bush
The Jesus says “bush league” and he’s pretty badass.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsEa_M7MqYE&NR=1
oh shit! any book with “poison idea” in the description is an instant buy. i really want to read this now.
It’s a great read. Highly recommended.
This sounds fantastic. I’m sold.
i thought the same thing, but vampires instantly negate anything so i’m left feeling neutral
Intense, creepy, and hard to put down. It’s an incredible read. Don’t let your wholesale dismissal of “vampires” get in the way of a great new work. This is something completely different.
that’s funny alex. i had the same knee jerk aversion to the vampires too.
i have a soft spot for anything portland. i’ll probably end up buying this one.
This sounds fantastic. I’m sold.
I thought the same thing: Poison Idea AND GG Allin. I know a guy who knows a guy who was the last guy to interview GG Allin before he killed himself. Like a lot of stuff I remember from early punk (for me) days, I liked or was fascinated more by the concept or persona or provocation than the “art” of the performance or music or whatever. Makes me wonder if this book is like that: more interesting or personally moving in theory than in execution or one-on-one engagement. The only way to know for sure, I realize, is to read the thing. And yet there’s always more than enough to read right here at the bedside. I do like Jackson’s blurb: “visionary, pervy, unhinged.” And Evenson’s connect to Burroughs. But then, blurbs are blurbs are blurbs. I have a hard time believing any of that stuff anymore b/c I’ve found recently the hype to be little more than hype and not even connected to the art being hyped. So I dunno. Open but skeptical? I think that’s me. But now I also see Vermin Jim’s rec below, so… hmmm… yeah.
i’m reading it now: it’s pretty fantastic both in execution and in 1 on 1 engagement.
the allin scenes are fucking awesome
I thought the same thing: Poison Idea AND GG Allin. I know a guy who knows a guy who was the last guy to interview GG Allin before he killed himself. Like a lot of stuff I remember from early punk (for me) days, I liked or was fascinated more by the concept or persona or provocation than the “art” of the performance or music or whatever. Makes me wonder if this book is like that: more interesting or personally moving in theory than in execution or one-on-one engagement. The only way to know for sure, I realize, is to read the thing. And yet there’s always more than enough to read right here at the bedside. I do like Jackson’s blurb: “visionary, pervy, unhinged.” And Evenson’s connect to Burroughs. But then, blurbs are blurbs are blurbs. I have a hard time believing any of that stuff anymore b/c I’ve found recently the hype to be little more than hype and not even connected to the art being hyped. So I dunno. Open but skeptical? I think that’s me. But now I also see Vermin Jim’s rec below, so… hmmm… yeah.
i’m reading it now: it’s pretty fantastic both in execution and in 1 on 1 engagement.
the allin scenes are fucking awesome