05/18/2024
Coming soon from Crescent City Books, the sequel to P. Curran's cult besteller Stay Out of New Orleans, Even the Wicked Get Worse than we Deserve.
A pile of sand accreted round a bend in the Mississippi. Eons of too-rich silt in a concave too unstable to farm. A jungle shunned by all but the worst species. A Spanish wreck the French refused to admit couldn’t be saved. A monument to man’s inhumanity, its streets named to honor music and the Muses and a slave exchange. End of the line for the almost-rans. If you can’t make it here…stay anyway.
Set in New Orleans during the 1990s, the books function as an accidental time capsule after a 2005 levee breach demolished the city. Since their release, readers have commented on the odd continuity between the books and how they seemingly map out a lost corridor through the city’s secret past.
Sometimes called “The 90s Trilogy” or “The Stay Out Trilogy”, the first three P. Curran books lay at the intersection of brutal crime & supernatural occult fiction, detailing the grind of living in a place celebrated for its culture and hospitality while maintaining a reputation for being, at various times, the world’s murder capital. This sequel, another sly web of genre-defying tales, weaves characters and places from those earlier books into the treacherous new flora that sprung up in the flood’s wake.
P. Curran is a strange storyteller. As one of the pen names of Peter Orr, P. Curran has found their work in the hands of readers via merch table, guitar case, record shop, table at the French Market, & beyond. Originally from New York, Peter has barely scraped by or lived high on the hog in New Orleans since the early 90s. Oh and sure he's been to the university and edited magazines and what have ye. He used to edit magazines, then for twenty-five years played music in New Orleans nightclub.
