Short, punchy, visceral stories
A bush party leads to
self-immolation. A cab ride ends in warfare. A squirrel is eviscerated. A
universally impossible dare is accepted and proves not to be fatal. The
weird kid triumphs. The stories in H.B. Hogan's debut collection sizzle
like butter on hot cast iron-they're rich and dark and full of scrappy,
sordid and sparkling humanity.
"[A] darkly entertaining debut collection."--Toronto Star
"This Keeps Happening
is an impressive debut, one that will leave you laughing, cringing,
looking off into space uncomfortably, then turning the page once again."--Broken Pencil
About the Author :
H.B. Hogan lives in Toronto with her boyfriend and her cat. Her fiction has been published in Taddle Creek, This Magazine, and subTerrain. She has a chapbook with Proper Tales Press. Her work has been acknowledged by the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council.
Review :
"In her darkly entertaining debut collection, H.B. Hogan brings us
tales of people who find themselves on the wrong side of the social
divide."--Toronto Star
"What I love most about these
stories is the many ways that redemption is made completely absurd, as
if to point out how rare and how tenuous moments of self-fulfillment
really are. I want to avoid spoilers but I'll just say that it's not
often that a story makes me gasp in shock and burst out laughing in a
single paragraph."--Claire Farley, editor of Canthius
"The opposite of being comfortable, this is a book that--in the best ways--gets under the skin."--Pickle Me This
"This Keeps Happening
is an impressive debut, one that will leave you laughing, cringing,
looking off into space uncomfortably, then turning the page once again."--Broken Pencil
"H.
B. Hogan's stories are dirty, fresh, and brutally funny, lingering on
little human details until they're just uncomfortable enough--then
pushing a little farther. Their wickedness will stay with you for days."--Michelle Winters, author of Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist I Am a Truck
-- "Michelle Winters, author of Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist I Am a Truck"
