Everybody Knows What Time It Is

By Reginald Martin

ISBN 10: 1-60801-011-2

ISBN13: 978-1-60801-011-0

The future South is not what it used to be. In the year 2020, when no one can see clearly, three of the South’s children find themselves embroiled a twisted tale of music, murder, sex, and history.

WINNER of the Best Novel in Manuscript, Deep South Writers Competition

“Reginald Martin’s brilliant fiction is comic, bawdy, and full of irony and absurdity; it reads like the extended tall tale of folklore and includes trickster comedy involving excretory and reproductive functions. Martin’s characters are hip, intellectual, comfortable or even well off; they’re worldly, aware of tradition, and able to explain their condition, but they’re still troubled. Martin suggests that the adversaries of the past were clear cut; those of modern times are difficult to identify or are so they even elude definition.” — Ishmael Reed, author of Flight to Canada

“A brilliant work set in the future South. Timeless.” — Ernest Gaines, author of A Gathering of Old Men

"First he redoes the critical way to view the African subtext for fiction in Ishmael Reed and the New Black Aesthetic Critics, then he redefined how we corresponded with our own erotic natures in Erotique Noire, an

d now in Everybody Knows he invents new fiction structures that mirror their characters’ pathologies and suggest cures for all of us without preaching and while constantly entertaining. What next from this writer who not only seems to write everything so well, but also write about things in ways that no one has ever written before?" — Lane Wilkins, author of The Life and Times of Gus Johnson

“I saw these stories grow from small crots of Reginald Martin’s sophisticated nightspot covers into the finished piece of Afro-Americana this novel most certainly now is. It is clear to me now that Martin’s writing pre-exists him, but can only come through him as the medium. Really amazing.” — Francois Camoin, author of Truth in Fiction

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