An OWN IT! curated playlist released on the first Friday of every month.
With a sharply crafted list of songs carefully curated by OWN IT!, this months playlist is tailored to each story of Courttia Newland’s first collection of speculative fiction, COSMOGRAMMA.
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COSMOGAMMA BY COURTTIA NEWLAND
In his sharply crafted, unnerving first collection of speculative fiction shorts, Courttia Newland envisages an alternate future as lived by the African diaspora.
Robots used as human proxies in a war become driven by all-too-human desires; Kill Parties roam the streets of a post-apocalyptic world; a matriarchal race of mer creatures depends on inter-breeding with mortals to survive; mysterious seeds appear in cities across the world, growing into the likeness of people in their vicinity.
Through transfigured bodies and impossible encounters, Newland brings a sharp, fresh eye to age-old themes of the human capacity for greed, ambition and self-destruction, but ultimately of our strength and resilience.
