Kimberly king parsons black light5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() How did she manage to destroy me in such a tight space? This book put me on a lifelong path of short story reading and writing, and it was my first lesson in urgency, compression, and an accessible, plainly affecting voice. Hempel says the ending of a story should punch you in the heart, and when I first finished “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried,” I was wrecked, but more than that, I was curious. I read this collection when I was a teenager, and it’s fair to say my life was split into everything before and everything that came after. ![]() In the column below, Parsons acknowledges her own personal pantheon-the writers who all helped inspire the breakthroughs that led to Black Light.Īmy Hempel, Reasons to Live. ![]() Our series of guest blog posts by contemporary American writers continues today with a contribution from Kimberly King Parsons, whose debut collection of short fiction, Black Light, lands this week from Vintage Books.īlack Light has already been named a “Staff Pick” by the Paris Review Daily, whose reviewer enthused, “Parsons is both unflinching and eloquent in her portrayals of people as they burn and rage,” and Carmen Maria Machado (whose own debut collection we featured in this space nearly two years ago) says she “loved every moment” of the book’s “grimy and weird, surprising, utterly lush” stories. Kimberly King Parsons salutes Eileen Myles, Denis Johnson, and other voices she “would follow anywhere” Black Light (Vintage, 2019) by Kimberly King Parsons. ![]()
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