THE HOURGLASS

Dwight Garner, literary critic for The New York Times, selected photographer Paul Kwiatkowski’s And Every Day Was Overcast for the newspaper's annual holiday gift guide. Our limited-edition copy is clothbound and accompanied by an exclusive vinyl album of the soundtrack. Each copy is signed by the author. 

Garner writes, "This illustrated novel about growing up poor near the swamps of South Florida has a lurid vibrancy. Its prose is lit from below, like a vaguely scummy in-ground swimming pool, and the author’s photographs – of ranch houses, randy adolescents, alligators, drug paraphernalia, fishing tackle, convenience stores – are what you might get if you combined William Eggleston’s talents with Terry Richardson’s. 'My hometown, Loxahatchee, was built over Seminole Indian burial grounds,' Mr. Kwiatkowski writes. 'In exchange for land we inherited bad conscience. It was in my blood.' Reality television made the author think of 'South Florida as a playpen for rapists, child molesters, and killers.' His book is full of young people, see as if from a passing Camaro, having a good time and trying to get out alive." 

The book has also been reviewed by the Los Angeles Times and the photography website American Suburb X.

Purchase a limited-edition copy now before they run out.