{"product_id":"willcp","title":"Willoughby, New York, by Carson Pytell","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProse, chapbook, 32 pages, from\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhere are you from? Does it even matter to you? Whether or not you know it, it does. Wherever you are from, and whatever and whomever you encounter while there moulds you. We are all impressionable at least once in our lives, during youth.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSome instances, some people, they'll bruise you up but then clear away in no time. Others, however, leave you wrecked and battered often without even realizing it. They leave you thereafter to live with scars indelible and invisible, especially when they ache or itch.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"I love Carson Pytell’s work. It reminds me of Charles Bukowski and Fredrick Exley. It reminds me of Kevin Ridgeway and John Fante. It reminds me of the kind of fiction that a lot of us were trying to do when I lived and worked in Long Beach. So many of us who studied under Gerry Locklin and Ray Zepeda were going after a kind of gritty realism, and some of us accomplished the spirit and tone. Others did not. I never did to the degree that I wanted to, and so I shifted to different kinds of writing. Pytell, however, is a kind of master of this type of writing, and his fiction collection, \u003cem\u003eWilloughby, New York\u003c\/em\u003e, is a powerful work.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e —John Brantingham\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCarson Pytell is a writer living outside Albany, New York, whose work has appeared widely in venues such as \u003cem\u003eThe Adirondack Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSheila-Na-Gig\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Fourth River\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Heartland Review\u003c\/em\u003e. He is Assistant Poetry Editor of \u003cem\u003eCoastal Shelf\u003c\/em\u003e, and his most recent chapbooks are \u003cem\u003eTomorrow Everyday, Yesterday Too\u003c\/em\u003e (Anxiety Press, 2022), \u003cem\u003eA Little Smaller Than the Final Quark\u003c\/em\u003e (Bullshit Lit, 2022), and \u003cem\u003eHate, Love, Hate\u003c\/em\u003e, (Back Room Poetry, 2022).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carson Pytell","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":44229491884347,"sku":"WILLCP","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":44229491917115,"sku":"WILLCPe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/wny2front.png?v=1675975020","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/willcp","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}