From the Swamps to the Skies: Preston L. Allen Talks about Every Boy Should Have a Man

My homie Preston Allen’s new novel, Every Boy Should Have a Man (Akashic, 2013) is the most interesting
book I’ve read this year. Since it’s still only May, let me rephrase that: it’s
the most interesting book I’ve read in a long, long time. It’s not the sort of
novel I often read; it’s neither realism, nor sci-fi, nor fantasy, nor
speculative fiction, but its own thing, what could perhaps be called an epic
fable or fairy tale. Regardless, what has most impressed me is not its style,
although...