Cool Dog Sound is excited to announce our latest publication, Sometimes by the Sea, a collection of three short stories from award-winning Georgia author Jim White, also a noted musician and visual artist.
In Sometimes by the Sea, White’s third book, the Florida native brings three distinctly different main characters to a milieux he is intimately familiar with: the seashore. While seemingly unrelated the title characters — the old woman, the young father, and the young woman — are all drawn to the water where, according to author Max Hipp, they are lured to “revelation and even redemption.”
John T. Edge, author of House of Smoke: A Southerner Goes Searching For Home, describes Sometimes by the Sea simply as “Flannery O’Connor takes her people to the beach.” And yes, White’s writing contains some of the same dark humor and religious overtones of his fellow Georgian’s best work.
Publish date: 09.25.26
PreSale runs from 08.26.26 thru 09.09.26 and preorders will go in the mail shortly after.
- Jim White is a national treasure. He wields prose in these marvelous short stories just as deftly and surprisingly as he wields song lyrics in his day job.
— Richard Grant, author of Dispatches from Pluto and A Race to the Bottom of Crazy: Dispatches From Arizona
- Flannery O’Connor takes her people to the beach. That’s the pitch I’d make to the suits if I wanted to turn Jim White’s slim collection of linked short stories into a movie. Like the author, Sometimes by the Sea is smart and provocative and telling.
— John T Edge, author of House of Smoke: A Southerner Goes Searching for Home
- In Sometimes by the Sea, the water lures lost and landlocked characters to revelation and maybe even redemption. Sounds heavy, I know, but White, a seasoned storyteller, keeps these stories fun. Go read this one by the sea.
— Max Hipp, author of What Doesn’t Kill You Opens Your Heart
- Jim White has always considered himself a writer first and a musician second. He is faithful to both William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy, but above all to Flannery O’Connor.
— Lee Durkee, author of Stalking Shakespeare: A Memoir of Madness, Murder, and My Search for the Poet Beneath the Paint
Jim White is a Georgia-based musician, author, and artist.His debut album, Wrong-Eyed Jesus, is considered a minor classic in the Americana genre and was the basis for the BBC4 documentary, Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus. Championed by the New York Times, NPR, Mojo magazine, David Byrne, Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan and others, White’s a noted oddball with numerous critically acclaimed albums to his credit. His short story, Superwhite, won a Pushcart Prize for short fiction in 2015. He is also the author the books Incidental Contact and Skirmishes with the Lord (Mishaps and adventures while filming Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus).