“Johnson’s gift for pure invention is downright García Márquezian, and Polis is his rambunctious Macondo.”
—Ed Park, author of Same Bed Different Dreams
“Johnson’s unbridled debut runs in circles of accelerating grandiosity and lunacy.”
—Publishers Weekly
An inventive, beautifully written debut that will leave readers wanting more.”—Kirkus, starred review
“A magnetic voice, sly, witty, musical — an Augie March for a new time and a new place.”
—T. C. Boyle
Eskor David Johnson is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago and the USA. His debut novel Pay As You Go (McSweeney’s, 2023) was a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and was Longlisted for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award.
He lives in New York City.
On Instagram I keep a visual diary.
On Substack I host a weekly dinner party.
And if you write me a message, I will write you back.
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