And One Day We Will Die
By Patrick Barb
- Release Date: 2025-01-14
- Genre: Fiction & Literature
Celebrate the Strangeness of Being Anything at All
Spotlighting the bizarrely beautiful and beautifully bizarre music and lyrics of indie folk rock band Neutral Milk Hotel, And One Day We Will Die features 22 short stories from the realms of weird, phantasmagoric, and speculative fiction, all inspired by the cult classic songs written and performed by Jeff Mangum and company. From alternate histories where happy endings are allowed and mythological re-imaginings that center love over destruction to awe-inspiring contemplations of the potential in the present and dark and unfathomable future visions, all featured authors selected one song from the beloved Neutral Milk Hotel songbook to use as a springboard for their tales.
Editor and publisher Patrick Barb has assembled a diverse array of authors and tales, with the love of Neutral Milk Hotel acting as connective tissue, solidifying into an all-star album's worth of writing talent. Drawing from On Avery Island, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Ferris Wheel on Fire, and even some of the band's bootleg recordings, these stories speak to the spark struck by Mangum's haunting, inspiring, and perplexing creative output that burns with a passionate intensity through the prose offerings within.
Featuring fiction by:
Lillah Lawson
Helen Victoria Murray
M. Lopes da Silva
Camila Hamel
Briar Ripley Page
Joe Koch
Tiffany Morris
D. Matthew Urban
Christi Nogle
Tim Major
Dan Coxon
Matthew Kressel
Lindz McLeod
Erin Brown
Brian Evenson
Edward Barnfield
Dale Light
Corey Farrenkopf
Ai Jiang
Michael Horita
Richard Thomas
John Langan
And a Foreword by
Adam Clair (author of Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery)
