"Crazy people running amok in Texas...."
This story collection—a finalist for the annual first fiction award presented by the Texas Institute of Letters—explores Austin, Texas, a city famous for music, football, and drunken fun frolics—and famous too for traffic jams, anomie, and dislocation. In Long Time Ago Good, Lowell Mick White imaginatively recreates this city, this region. Here is a folksy reporter covering a chitlins cook-off, a ragged cab driver fighting for his life, a lonely jewelry-maker focusing too much on the past—a high tech worker losing her job, a bureaucrat looking for something more. These stories are populated by depressed men, angry women, frustrated dogs, and fearful cats—filled with heat waves and heartbreaks, thunderstorms and belly-laughs: with all that is modern Texas—and America….
Praise for Long Time Ago Good:
“Long Time Ago Good is an excellent read, and it deserves praise from a wide audience, including those beyond Texas’ borders….We can hope to see much more of his work in the years to come—and we can hope Austin will continue to receive the literary attention White has shined upon it.”
—Twister Marquiss, Texas Books in Review
“Long Time Ago Good, with its poignant individual stories and theme-building arrangement, is one of those initial works by a writer that makes the reader want to read the next one, and soon.”
—Chad Hammett, Southwestern American Literature
"I read books to experience other lives, lives that I can relate to and might have lived. I like Austin; this book is set mostly in Austin. I like a mixture of humor and grit—this book has that—and I like surprises. The tales told here enriched and surprised me."
—Chuck Taylor, author of Heterosexual and Like Li Po Laughing at the Moon
Long Time Ago Good
Published by Buffalo Times Press
ISBN-13: 978-0990863281
Praise for Long Time Ago Good:
“Long Time Ago Good is an excellent read, and it deserves praise from a wide audience, including those beyond Texas’ borders….We can hope to see much more of his work in the years to come—and we can hope Austin will continue to receive the literary attention White has shined upon it.”
—Twister Marquiss, Texas Books in Review
“Long Time Ago Good, with its poignant individual stories and theme-building arrangement, is one of those initial works by a writer that makes the reader want to read the next one, and soon.”
—Chad Hammett, Southwestern American Literature
"I read books to experience other lives, lives that I can relate to and might have lived. I like Austin; this book is set mostly in Austin. I like a mixture of humor and grit—this book has that—and I like surprises. The tales told here enriched and surprised me."
—Chuck Taylor, author of Heterosexual and Like Li Po Laughing at the Moon
Long Time Ago Good
Published by Buffalo Times Press
ISBN-13: 978-0990863281
