[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_team_member admin_label=”Person” name=”ESKOR DAVID JOHNSON ” animation=”off” background_layout=”light” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” image_url=”http:\/\/andreasomberg.com\/aslitagent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/EskorDavidJohnson.jpeg”]<\/p>\n
Eskor David Johnson\u00a0is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago and the United States. His writing has appeared in\u00a0BOMB Magazine<\/i>, and\u00a0McSweeney\u2019s Quarterly Concern<\/i>. A graduate of Harvard University and the Iowa Writers\u2019 Workshop, where he was the recipient of the Richard Yates Short Story Prize, the Maytag Fellowship and the Teaching-Writing Fellowship, he currently lives in New York City<\/p>\n
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McSweeneys, 2023<\/p>\n
*Finalist for the Center For Fiction First Novel Prize\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n *A Finalist for the NYPL Young Lions Award\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n *Longlisted for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n *An NPR “Best Book of the Year”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n *Kirkus Fiction Must-Reads This Fall\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n *PW Best Indie Books to Read This Fall\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n *A Debutiful Most Anticipated Debut\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n *A Shondaland Best Book to Read This Fall\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n New to town and delusionally confident, Slide imagined himself living in a glossy building with doormen and sweeping views of the skyline. Instead he\u2019s landed in a creaking, stuffy apartment with two roommates: a loping giant who hardly leaves his room, and a weight-obsessed neurotic who keeps no fewer than forty-seven lamps throughout the house, blazing at all hours.<\/p>\n Unwilling to accept this fate, Slide\u2014a barber with an opaque past\u2014embarks on a quest for the perfect apartment, pinballing through the sprawling, madcap city of Polis and its endless procession of neighborhoods. As he bounces from foldout couch to disaster-relief tent, falling in with some tough types, Slide begins to realize that he\u2019s going to have to scratch and claw just to claim a place for himself in this world\u2014let alone a place with in-unit laundry.<\/p>\n An exuberant, fantastical odyssey, Pay As You Go<\/span> wonders if what we\u2019re searching for is ever really out there. Its pages\u2014surreal, biting, and teeming with life\u2014announce the startling talents of Eskor David Johnson, who knows that all any of us really want is a place to rest our head.<\/p>\n \u201cBoth lampooning city life and confessing love for it, this story is a display of prodigious storytelling talent. It rushes by with the creative adrenaline of a one-man show; it hums with an infectious joy. [\u2026] Told in a raucous vaudeville style that blends gorgeous lyrical descriptions with madcap farce, Pay As You Go<\/span> is a magnetic novel.\u201d \u201cA madcap odyssey through the hellscape that is the metropolis of the near future. [\u2026] Like Dante, Slide wanders in circles, soaking in weirdness, tragedies, and occasional flashes of beauty. And like Joyce, Johnson builds a world that, for all its improbabilities, is recognizable. [\u2026] An inventive, beautifully written debut that will leave readers wanting more.\u201d \u201cJohnson\u2019s unbridled debut runs in circles of accelerating grandiosity and lunacy.\u201d \u201cA brilliantly surreal and vivid feat of imagination.\u201d
\n\u00a0 \u00a0\u2015Foreword Reviews<\/span>, starred review<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u2015Kirkus<\/span>, starred review<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u2015Publishers Weekly<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
\n \u2015Literary Hub<\/span>, <\/span>Most Anticipated Books of 2023, Part Two<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n