Announcing Zig Zag Wanderer
Zig Zag Wanderer is no ordinary short story collection. These 18 stories come from Madison Smartt Bell—acclaimed writer of more than a dozen books and National Book Award finalist—who has said that his work has always been dictated by daemons. Stretching from New York to Haiti and beyond, these luminous stories reveal Bell’s sharp eye and deep empathy for his characters—punks, hustlers, mixed figures, and lost souls of all ages, backgrounds, and denominations. Characters who have a foot in two worlds, as Bell says.
Published by the Concord Free Press in an innovative infinite book format, Zig Zag Wanderer was launched at a special reading at The Ivy Bookshop in Baltimore on Wednesday, December 11, 2013—followed by a Boston launch on February 12, 2014 at Newtonville Books. Info here.
Read the great interview with Madison Smartt Bell by Jen Michalski here, plus reviews/interviews from the Baltimore Sun, WYPR, What Weekly, Chapter 16, and the Baltimore City Paper. And a new interview in the Washington Independent Review of Books is here.
Be sure to request your copy of Zig Zag Wanderer right here. And please remember to tell us where you gave.
If you're looking for a Haitian aid organization to support, Madison recommends:
The Lamdi Fund, which promotes sustainable agriculture
Fonkoze, which offers microfinance and banking services to Haiti's rural poor