For your website. I hope that you can post this info on the
Rudebwoy/Skin novel.


Those who read Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite's first novel, the
inexplicably overlooked Wigger, will recognize the Victoria writer's
performative prose and irascible voice in his latest work. Ratz Are
Nice (PSP) is the story of Edison, a black skinhead navigating the mean
streets and meaner syntax of the skinhead/rudeboy scene.
In Braithwaite's hands, skinhead/rudeboy culture becomes an exemplar
of the psychic Balkanization that comes with being black in
British Columbia, a place that bars easy appropriations of
Afrocentrism.

Braithwaite's English is given not only to the reclamation of hip-hop
phonetics, but to font play, idiosyncratic punctuation, and a layout
that tells as much of the story as the words themselves. Like a
literary Jean-Michel Basquiat, Braithwaite succeeds in mashing up our
too-settled categories of prose and identity.

--Wayde Compton, , for the GEORGIA STRAIGHT, author of 49th Parallel
Psalm


Braithwaite lives in a fugitive bunker in the Fernwood district of
Victoria, BC.

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Suspect Thoughts Press is proud to announce the October release of the
anthology: Of the Flesh:Dangerous New Fiction edited by Greg Wharton
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http://www.suspectthoughts.com/press.htm

Contains an Author interview:
http://www.alyson.com/html/00_files/00_interviews/0300/0300ratz_interview.html