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Lockdown Fever: Stories
"Dude, stop emailing me." —Katy Waldman, The New Yorker
"Thank you for contacting The New York Times. You've reached an unmonitored inbox." —The New York Times Book Review
"You're blocked. You can't follow or see @rgay Tweets." —Roxane Gay, The New York Times–bestselling author of Difficult Women and Bad Feminist
It would be accurate and fair to say the literary world has never heard of Easter Colorado. He is not widely acclaimed or a recipient of any literary prize. He has won nothing but the hearts and minds of readers. In Lockdown Stories, the most uncelebrated author of the year brings heart and humility to the pell-mell hand-to-hand combat of 2020s public discourse.
In four distinct but thematically interwoven stories, Colorado holds a mirror to America as it shatters and the world burns all around him. A portrait of a young country in the throes of a tantrum, an electricity in your fillings ride through the insanity of these last years. He examines race, culture, personal responsibility in a global tragedy and even throws in zombies for good measure.
In Some People Deserve To Die, a Redditor takes revenge on a racist troll. In Patriot, Patriotic, Psycho, Psychotic, Patriot, Patriotic, Psycho, Psychotic, a protestor becomes a rioter as multiverses collide. In Number + Adjective + Keyword + Promise, a factory owner finds herself exposed. In Nerd Immunity, a queer Political Science professor surprises himself by switching sides as the dead return to make a political point.
"Thank you for contacting The New York Times. You've reached an unmonitored inbox." —The New York Times Book Review
"You're blocked. You can't follow or see @rgay Tweets." —Roxane Gay, The New York Times–bestselling author of Difficult Women and Bad Feminist
It would be accurate and fair to say the literary world has never heard of Easter Colorado. He is not widely acclaimed or a recipient of any literary prize. He has won nothing but the hearts and minds of readers. In Lockdown Stories, the most uncelebrated author of the year brings heart and humility to the pell-mell hand-to-hand combat of 2020s public discourse.
In four distinct but thematically interwoven stories, Colorado holds a mirror to America as it shatters and the world burns all around him. A portrait of a young country in the throes of a tantrum, an electricity in your fillings ride through the insanity of these last years. He examines race, culture, personal responsibility in a global tragedy and even throws in zombies for good measure.
In Some People Deserve To Die, a Redditor takes revenge on a racist troll. In Patriot, Patriotic, Psycho, Psychotic, Patriot, Patriotic, Psycho, Psychotic, a protestor becomes a rioter as multiverses collide. In Number + Adjective + Keyword + Promise, a factory owner finds herself exposed. In Nerd Immunity, a queer Political Science professor surprises himself by switching sides as the dead return to make a political point.
167 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 6, 2022
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