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Waiting To Be Forgotten: Stories of Crime And Heartbreak, Inspired By The Replacements
The Replacements sang about the bittersweet fruit of life. Love. Loss. Ambition. Failure. They showed us the highs of the party, and the lows of the harrowing hangover. The Mats wrote about people who dared to be, and ended up aching for it. They were square pegs in the round hole of the world, and for their fans, they connected like no other band.
Twenty-five crime writers take to the page to honor their misfit heroes with a series of stories about the sad, the twisted, the beat down, and the darkness that looms just beyond the periphery. Each tale is inspired by a Replacements song, and each story is just as unique and heartbreaking as its inspiration.
Get in the van and ride to the next town with this rare tribute to a rarer musical phenomenon.
Twenty-five crime writers take to the page to honor their misfit heroes with a series of stories about the sad, the twisted, the beat down, and the darkness that looms just beyond the periphery. Each tale is inspired by a Replacements song, and each story is just as unique and heartbreaking as its inspiration.
Get in the van and ride to the next town with this rare tribute to a rarer musical phenomenon.
312 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 9, 2016
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About the author
Jay Stringer
40 books119 followersJay Stringer was born in 1980, and he’s not dead yet.
He’s English by birth and Scottish by rumour; born in the Black Country, and claiming Glasgow as his hometown.
Jay is dyslexic, and came to the written word as a second language, via comic books, music, and comedy. He writes hard boiled crime stories, dark comedies, and social fiction.
His first three books, the Eoin Miller Trilogy explored the political and criminal landscape of the West Midlands.
He now writes books set in Glasgow and New York.
Jay won a gold medal in the Antwerp Olympics of 1920. He did not compete in the Helsinki Olympics of 1952, that was some other guy.
Jay is represented by Stacia Decker at Dunow, Carlson & Lerner.
He’s English by birth and Scottish by rumour; born in the Black Country, and claiming Glasgow as his hometown.
Jay is dyslexic, and came to the written word as a second language, via comic books, music, and comedy. He writes hard boiled crime stories, dark comedies, and social fiction.
His first three books, the Eoin Miller Trilogy explored the political and criminal landscape of the West Midlands.
He now writes books set in Glasgow and New York.
Jay won a gold medal in the Antwerp Olympics of 1920. He did not compete in the Helsinki Olympics of 1952, that was some other guy.
Jay is represented by Stacia Decker at Dunow, Carlson & Lerner.
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March 25, 2021
3.5 stars. I bought this book because I’m a Replacements fan but the stories don’t really have anything to do with the band except for the story titles being Replacements song titles. All in all they were decent enough stories, there were only two I didn’t care for. Recommended if you like crime stories.
December 1, 2016
* Disclaimer * - I am the author of one of the stories in this collection.
The editor of "Waiting to Be Forgotten" -- Jay Stringer -- purely *loves* The Replacements. That love shines through. Stringer established a very clear vision for the anthology, with its bedrock being the themes that Paul Westerberg explored in his heartfelt songwriting. With these guideposts in mind, a crew of writers drew a remarkably varied array of inspirations. The stories touch on all the things that made The Replacements great: longing, sadness, daring, loss, determination, pathos, and humor.
What's more, I've revisited the collection and found much to savor the second time around.
The editor of "Waiting to Be Forgotten" -- Jay Stringer -- purely *loves* The Replacements. That love shines through. Stringer established a very clear vision for the anthology, with its bedrock being the themes that Paul Westerberg explored in his heartfelt songwriting. With these guideposts in mind, a crew of writers drew a remarkably varied array of inspirations. The stories touch on all the things that made The Replacements great: longing, sadness, daring, loss, determination, pathos, and humor.
What's more, I've revisited the collection and found much to savor the second time around.
June 29, 2020
Never a big Replacements fan, I nonetheless found the theme of this anthology to be intriguing and ultimately satisfying, with an above-average selection of crime stories that neither presume or require knowledge of the 'Mats. And all stories are consdierably more together and coherent thant the time I saw The Replacements in '83.
May 14, 2017
Disappointing. Claiming to be "inspired by The Replacements", these short stories were mostly creepy and lacked the creative wit and romantic melancholy I was hoping for.
December 13, 2016
With 25 tales in total, WAITING TO BE FORGOTTEN cuts a jagged paper cut across the emotions of the reader. Love and loss. Laughter and tears. This volume will appeal to fans of crime fiction as well as those that are hungry for another touchstone to their favorite band.
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