Mud Flat Press’ Lit Chat #6 will be on Zoom with Alec Clayton, author of The Descendants the Pirate Pegleg Josiah Johnson.
Pegleg Josiah Johnson was said to have fathered children with women in every major city along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the most famous of which was New Orleans madame Matilda Gertrude Hildegarde Duchamp (Gertie).
The Descendants of the Pirate Pegleg Josiah Johnson traces the lives of Pegleg and Gertie’s many descendants, beginning with their grandson Hairless Harlan Johnson, whose wife was mauled by a circus tiger.
After migrating from the swamplands of South Louisiana to Seattle and Olympia, Washington, Harlan’s many children and grandchildren get together every summer at a resort on Orcas Island where all hell breaks loose as brothers and sisters learn anew how to love one another despite it all.
Get to know the crazy Johnson family from Hairless Harlan to Billy, the oldest who has never fit in, to Lizzy the dancer, to Larry the New York citified artist whom everyone loves; to sensible Eva and her wife Helen; and to Bryce the football player and history professor who tried to eat a hat.
Alec Clayton will read a brief selection from the book, his twelfth novel, and discuss it with you on Zoom.
Clayton is co-owner of Mud Flat Press and editor of Oly Arts magazine.
Join us on Sunday, April 26 at 2:30 p.m. (Pacfic time)
Log in at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2761937361?pwd=FyrF45uaXKhQyj9tfO0XibmVQoHJi2.1&omn=81598965882
Most Lit Chats are about an hour long.
Read more about the book:
https://mudflatpress.com/the-descendants-of-the-pirate-pegleg-josiah-johnson/
Meet Alec Clayton:
https://mudflatpress.com/alec-clayton/