Her entry begins:Right now I am neck-deep into David Keenan's astounding, moving, brutalist/rhapsodic This Is Memorial Device: An Hallucinated Oral History of the Post-Punk Music Scene in Airdrie, Coatbridge and environs 1978–1986, a fictional memoir that I picked up as research for the book I'm currently writing, but which is so spectacularly good that I'm reading it because of its pure, melancholy energy, and the miraculous, anatomical way it recreates the dangerous, intoxicating and mysterious evanescence of...[read on]About Dead is Beautiful, from the publisher:
DEAD IS BEAUTIFUL, the fourth in the series (Dead Is Better, Dead Is Best, Dead Is Good), finds Rose leading Charlie from the peace of the afterlifeVisit Jo Perry's website.to the place he hates most on earth, “Beverly Fucking Hills” where a mature, protected tree harboring a protected bird is being illegally cut down.
The tree-assault leads Charlie and Rose to a to murder and to the person Charlie loathes most in life and in death, the sibling he refers to only as “his shit brother,” who is in danger.
Charlie fights-across the borders of life and death–for the man who never fought for him, and with the help of a fearless Scotsman, a beautiful witch, and a pissed-off owl, Charlie must stop a cruel and exploitative scheme and protect his beloved Rose.
Coffee with a Canine: Jo Perry & Lola and Lucy.
My Book, The Movie: Dead is Better.
The Page 69 Test: Dead is Better.
My Book, The Movie: Dead is Best.
The Page 69 Test: Dead is Best.
My Book, The Movie: Dead Is Good.
The Page 69 Test: Dead Is Good.
The Page 69 Test: Dead is Beautiful.
My Book, The Movie: Dead is Beautiful.
Writers Read: Jo Perry.
--Marshal Zeringue
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