Flying Home: Seven Stories of the Secret City
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David Nicholson is such a gifted, assured storyteller that I read FLYING HOME in a single sitting, pulled from one beautifully written, wise, and moving story to the next, so enchanted by the lives he explores in the secret city, and by his skill, that I was unaware of the passage of time. This is superbly crafted, memorable writing that will leave readers hungering for more. CHARLES JOHNSON, National Book Award-winning author of MIDDLE PASSAGE
David Nicholson, in FLYING HOME, his evocative and potent fiction debut, tells stories so grounded in specifics as to seem folkloric, delivering folklore on pavement. He writes in unhurried and assured prose, with sentences that can, when called for, become flowing, full of eddies and swirls. Dizzy Gillespie once said that it took him a lifetime to learn what not to play, and I believe Nicholson heard him and has also done that very thing. DANIEL WOODRELL, author of WINTER S BONE
David Nicholson, and all those people I mentioned to you: You should talk to them. Really, go talk to them. Get a book out about them. Find a way to cultivate a larger audience for them. James Alan McPherson, Pulitzer Prize winning author of ELBOW ROOM
In FLYING HOME, David Nicholson, the dauntless founder of BLACK FILM REVUEW, gives us a series of absorbing stories, captured for the reader in a linguistical version of CinemaScope, along with a most playful riff on Ralph Ellison s narrative style. Intimate yet wide-angled, imaginative and probing, Nicholson s collection is, as its last tale reveals, full of the inspiration and longing that come with having seen Hendrix perform live on the grandest of stages when music and society were on the edge of revolution. Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University
