“In Dead Weight, Randall Horton, a ‘student of literature,’ learns to not only accept the dramatization of historical realities that constitute his life but to also accept that trauma, intrinsically unforgettable, must be, for him, relived as literature if he is to survive his many deaths.” —Tyrone Williams, coauthor of washpark — -
“Randall Horton’s Dead Weight moves between upper Manhattan, the Bahamas, Birmingham, and Washington, DC. In depicting complex webs of dread and desire that connect these dots, Dead Weight teaches its inimitable lessons in geography. These aren’t maps though. These geographies happen where continents crash back together and where histories cook into things—things like each other—that we inhale like flame into our hearts. Horton’s gripping story breathes life, lives, back into these worlds. These are worlds we may know or ones we may think we know. They may attract or repel, most likely both. It doesn’t matter though. Dead Weight reveals things to us—things like us—in ways we’ve never seen.” —Ed Pavlić, author of Another Kind of Madness: A Novel— -
“This memoir inspires with its depictions of the author’s resilience and galvanizes with its poignant critique of a long-broken system.” —Publishers Weekly
“In Dead Weight, Randall Horton, a ‘student of literature,’ learns to not only accept the dramatization of historical realities that constitute his life but to also accept that trauma, intrinsically unforgettable, must be, for him, relived as literature if he is to survive his many deaths.” —Tyrone Williams, coauthor of washpark — -
“This memoir inspires with its depictions of the author’s resilience and galvanizes with its poignant critique of a long-broken system.” —Publishers Weekly
“In Dead Weight, Randall Horton, a ‘student of literature,’ learns to not only accept the dramatization of historical realities that constitute his life but to also accept that trauma, intrinsically unforgettable, must be, for him, relived as literature if he is to survive his many deaths.” —Tyrone Williams, coauthor of washpark — -
“Randall Horton’s Dead Weight moves between upper Manhattan, the Bahamas, Birmingham, and Washington, DC. In depicting complex webs of dread and desire that connect these dots, Dead Weight teaches its inimitable lessons in geography. These aren’t maps though. These geographies happen where continents crash back together and where histories cook into things—things like each other—that we inhale like flame into our hearts. Horton’s gripping story breathes life, lives, back into these worlds. These are worlds we may know or ones we may think we know. They may attract or repel, most likely both. It doesn’t matter though. Dead Weight reveals things to us—things like us—in ways we’ve never seen.” —Ed Pavlić, author of Another Kind of Madness: A Novel
“Lyrical and brutal, street smart and philosophical, tender and tough, Dead Weight delights, disturbs, redeems, and instructs with kaleidoscopic style.” —Timothy Bradford, World Literature Today— -