Bøker av Couri Johnson

In this novel-in-stories, Couri Johnson explores personhood, womanhood, the nature and pain of love and growth and transformation. The Girl Who's many women enter worlds unknown in the perpetual entanglement that is being alive.

The daughter of the Last American Cowboy is tasked with putting her late-father's ashes to rest, but has plans of her own. A woman wakes up after the first night with her lover to discover she's birthed a pile of maggots. The ghost of Hans Christian Andersen comforts a young girl. These short stories are haunted by the destructive, often cyclically so, power of love and fantasy."Fans of Johnson's work, namely her previous collection I'll Tell You a Love Story (Bridge Eight, 2020), might notice an anger in these stories that felt more subdued before. There is a pain that still burns-the hand pressed to the stove, a flash in the sear that has not subsided. A kind offrenetic energy carries the reader through these pieces"- Kym Cunninham, author of NEW MYTHOLOGIES and DIFFICULTY SWALLOWING

Welcome to Pumpernickel House, a bi-annual journal of contemporary fairy tale, fabulism, magical realism, the strangely beautiful and the beautifully strange. Behind this door you'll find women who are birds, girls who love golems, beastly babies washed ashore by the tide, and a batch of Baba Yaga's special cookies. Get lost in the woods and stumble upon the intersection of past and future in the poetry of Jennifer Lynn Krohn, or step across our threshold and end up wandering the margins between modern Brooklyn and myth in Maya Beck's "Birdland." Pass through throne rooms of ice, hospital halls, and wedding parties, but be ever aware, Dear Reader, and keep in mind: the line between a fairy tale and a horror story is often thinner than a hair, and once you pass beyond the veil between here and elsewhere, there's no guarantee you will ever find the path to return. Featuring work by Christi Nogle, Lenny DellaRocca, GJ Gillespie, Margaret Stetz and more.