Nic Pizzolatto is an award-winning writer, the author of Between Here and the Yellow Sea and the novel Galveston. Originally from Southwest Louisiana, he taught literature at several universities including the University of Chicago. He is also the creator of the award-winning series True Detective. He lives in Los Angeles.
Pizzolatto's powerful fiction harkens back to the golden age of
short stories when O'Connor and the rest were working. He possesses
an apparently unlimited imagination and the narrative skills to
bring it to bear. --William Gay, author of Twilight and The Lost
Country Nic Pizzolatto is one of the most exciting young writers to
come along in ages. If, like me, you read his first stories when
they appeared in the Atlantic Monthly and were wondering whether or
not he could sustain such excellence over the course of a book,
wonder no more. This collection is first-rate, and Pizzolatto is
going to be wowing us for a long, long time to come. --Steve
Yarbrough, author of Prisoners of War and The Realm of Last Chances
These stories are violent, sad, and beautiful. They hang around
long after you've read them, like a long kiss, or a bruise. -
Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish and Ray in Reverse Nic
Pizzolatto's beautiful, lucid prose seems to flow like water or
like music. He knows how to write in the marrow of his bones. This
will be the first of many brilliant books. Hooray for talent, that
rare and lovely gift of the gods. --Ellen Gilchrist, author of
Victory Over Japan and Nora Jane These are bold, tender, and
intelligent stories. Nic Pizzolatto writes about people who don't
take loss lightly; they fight it. Whether searching for a
disappeared daughter or underground son or for their own abandoned
illusions, Pizzolatto's characters try to retrieve and recover
their bets. That they rarely succeed doesn't matter. Interesting
and beautiful things happen in Between Here and the Yellow Sea.
--Molly Giles, author of Iron Shoes The stories in Between Here and
the Yellow Sea are clear of vision and death-defyingly beautiful.
They ring like folded steel and reveal themselves in bold flashes.
It's said that a well told story honors the living. The stories in
Pizzolatto's debut collection are alive - veins apulse, hearts
brimmed with desire, voices still singing. --Adam Johnson, author
of The Orphan Master's Son and Emporium These stories are so
exquisite they ache with longing. --Tom Franklin, author of Hell at
the Breach and Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter Nic Pizzolatto is a
born storyteller of the first order. His characters are so
authentic you know if you prick them they will holler, and if you
cut them they will bleed. He penetrates the heart of 'the old,
weird America' with the insight of Dylan and the soul of Doc Boggs.
Between Here and the Yellow Sea marks the debut of one of our most
exciting new writers. mdash;Randall Kenan, author of Let the Dead
Bury Their Dead
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