#colinwinnette

Today, Rolling Stone France compared COYOTE to Nick Cave and Mark Lanegan, saying, “Murky, mysterious, shrouded in an almost gothic aura, Coyote is the confused account of a deeply disturbed woman, a powerful tale of pain and insanity. A literary gut-shot.”

Snag a French copy here.

COYOTE is getting some great coverage over in France right now, which is super exciting. There was a new review in Le Monde, which Google Translate tells me says things like:

We can only admire the novelist who succeeds not only in describing the manifestations of madness, but also in making us share this experience by distilling doubt on the meaning of what we are reading. Such is the feat that the young American author Colin Winnette succeeds with COYOTE .

Also, France Culture did a short audio segment on the book. My research tells me they call it strange and brutal... 

https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/les-emois/coyotte-de-colin-winnette

If you haven’t picked up a copy of COYOTE just yet, why not go for it?

Sirs and Madames, I’m going to start emailing people about writing-related things that are coming up or going on. Books are coming up, stories are coming out, a tour is in the works, and weird shit is on the horizon... If you’re interested in hearing about those things as they happen via email, sign up: 

https://tinyletter.com/cwinnette.

Greetings from Florence (not pictured)! 

The event in Rome last night was great, but also very strange. But also great. I spoke with two translators, and by spoke I mean drank a Corona while they talked at length in a language I’m too dumb to understand. It’s great because in most of the pictures I look very serious, even angry! But I’m actually just trying to identify one word out of the several hundred that I can make sense of. Also, when people translate you at a live event, they translate your gesticulations and odd little mannerisms. So a very intelligent and professional Italian was sitting next to me, performing all the weird little physical things I do when I speak without realizing it.

Tonight, Florence! 9PM and Libreria Clichy, if you are in Italy.

But, my reason for posting: we’re starting to bang the drum for the next short story workshop I’m teaching in San Francisco via Writing Pad. It runs for five weeks, from mid-June to mid-July. We’ll write some stories together and talk about ‘em. It’ll be great.

Here are the details: http://writingpad.com/five-week-short-story-workshop-in-san-francisco/

If you’ve got a friend who’s interested, or might be, it’d make one hell of a present.

Flavorwire premiered the new trailer for Haints Stay, and called it “...the most anticipated independent novel of the summer.” Which is sweet.

Two Dollar Radio will publish the novel on June 2. A person who wanted to get it could get it here.

A person who wanted to read more about the book, along with an interview with the filmmaker behind the trailer, could do that here.

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Over at Electric Literature, Connor Ferguson wonders that I remain relatively obscure, and says:

"Much of Winnette’s work has the timeless quality of myth—nameless characters whose stories feel more like refractions of something eternal than concrete events being narrated. Coyote, out in January from Les Figues Press...is over in a heartbeat—all the better to reread it and spend some time burrowing into some of the exquisitely crafted sentences."