Wallop
By Nathaniel Kennon Perkins
Published by House of Vlad Press, 2020
124 pages, paperback
The last time Lauren had gone to the Psychic Institute, she paid sixty bucks and was told she was a reincarnated mermaid from another planet. How stupid would a hitchhiking, pool-shooting landscaper have to be to impregnate a former alien mermaid? How idiotic would he have to be to sleep in cornfields, hitchhike with white spremacists, and consume a pillowcase full of mushrooms just to figure it out? Wallop is a budget crust-punk epic, an oodle ode set in the house parties and open roads of wasteland America, a manifesto for the crusty dirt ag who’s just trying to get something, anything back on track.
Praise for Wallop…
“Through witty prose and wry humor, [Perkins] achieves a delicate balance of nihilism and hope, resulting in an ultimately moving perspective of one man struggling to find meaning in contemporary life.” —Isa Mazzel, author of Camgirl
“[Perkins’s writing] necessitates a dirty, uncomfortable intimacy, revealing the ugly contours of fringe life…” —Kevin Sterne, author of All Must Go
“If you want to know what it feels like to be a young man making bad life choices in today’s America, [Wallop] is the book for you.” —Bart Schaneman, author of The Silence is the Noise
Wallop
By Nathaniel Kennon Perkins
Published by House of Vlad Press, 2020
124 pages, paperback
The last time Lauren had gone to the Psychic Institute, she paid sixty bucks and was told she was a reincarnated mermaid from another planet. How stupid would a hitchhiking, pool-shooting landscaper have to be to impregnate a former alien mermaid? How idiotic would he have to be to sleep in cornfields, hitchhike with white spremacists, and consume a pillowcase full of mushrooms just to figure it out? Wallop is a budget crust-punk epic, an oodle ode set in the house parties and open roads of wasteland America, a manifesto for the crusty dirt ag who’s just trying to get something, anything back on track.
Praise for Wallop…
“Through witty prose and wry humor, [Perkins] achieves a delicate balance of nihilism and hope, resulting in an ultimately moving perspective of one man struggling to find meaning in contemporary life.” —Isa Mazzel, author of Camgirl
“[Perkins’s writing] necessitates a dirty, uncomfortable intimacy, revealing the ugly contours of fringe life…” —Kevin Sterne, author of All Must Go
“If you want to know what it feels like to be a young man making bad life choices in today’s America, [Wallop] is the book for you.” —Bart Schaneman, author of The Silence is the Noise
House of Vlad, 2020
