XOXOX - Milk and Honey

The Land of Milk & Honey features twenty stories, Fielding's last collection to appear during his lifetime.

"One of the Corpse's faithful contributors, the legendary Dawson has written 20 new stories, collected here in a handsome volumette. 'Voices wise ... deeply human ... and searching,' is what I once wrote, about another book by Dawson. Still true."

Working with Fielding on The Land of Milk & Honey was a real treat—an honor and an adventure. When he was onto something—like a project such as this—he'd be relentless, always coming with new ideas, ever careful with the work under hand, pushing it until it found magnetic order, until all the filings lined up in a certain way. A book is a constellation, thousands of tiny lights. It's also a machine, something manufactured, finally, and it all has to work. Through its mechanisms a life has to flow, a soul and pulse. Making this book was something like being in a studio with someone who really knows his paint, knows his brushes and knives, and knows when to throw them down and just fling paint, to make the image cohere and make it sing. It's good—really good, as Fielding might say, stressing both words, to know he felt we finished this, and finished it well. The Land of Milk & Honey is a fine piece of work from a seminal short story master.