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Howard Norman: Graphic Fiction, Memoir, & Film Versions of "Next Life Might Be Kinder"

June 01, 2020 English

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Howard Norman's novel Next Life Might Be Kinder is being written and directed by the Bolivianplaywright/director Fernando Arze Echevar.

Next Life Might Be Kinder is a story of murder, desperate faith, the afterlife, and of love as absolute redemption—from one of our most compelling storytellers at the height of his talents. Sam Lattimore meets Elizabeth Church in 1970s Halifax, in an art gallery. The sparks are immediate, leading quickly to a marriage that is dear, erotically charged, and brief. In Howard Norman’s spellbinding and moving novel, the gleam of the marriage and the circumstances of Elizabeth’s murder are revealed in heart-stopping increments.

Additionally, the former UMD English professor's first of eight episodes of a graphic noir, Detective Levy Detects are to be published in December of this year.

The paperback edition of his novel The Ghost Clause is out June 2020.

The first chapter of a memoir, The Wound Is Where The Light Enters You is published in the spring issue of BRICK.