How Best to Avoid Dying: Stories

Lazarus Dying: the man Jesus raised from the dead is alive and living in New York City. The Fecalist: an author whose best selling work is his latest poop. Christmas: she loves you, you love her, she has a gun in your mouth.Welcome to the award-winning short fiction of Owen Egerton. Egerton, a rising star in Austin's growing literary scene, has a gift for vibrant prose and unforgettable characters. Whether exploring the strange world of faith or exposing the absurdities of contemporary bohemia, Egerton's fiction is dark, funny, and packed with the unexpected. The stories collected in How Best to Avoid Dying thematically complement each other, and as a whole, serve as a poignant, often hilarious, meditation on death. It will appeal to the same smart, urban crowd who loves Neal Pollack now or the Bret Easton Ellis of 20 years ago.