Being at Parnassus Books is always a pleasure, but it was especially exciting to go in yesterday to sign stock of Those Fantastic Lives.
Read MoreDeborah Kalb was kind enough to spend some time with me for her Q&A series on her site.
Read MoreAuthors Answer hosted me for its interview series. These were really thoughtful questions, and I am appreciative of having been able to participate.
Read MoreRebecca over at Bookish Beck wrote a very generous review of Those Fantastic Lives. She says, “I’d particularly recommend the book to readers of Kelly Link and Lydia Millet.”
Read MoreIt’s always cool to make a list. Thank you to the folks at Gizmodo for listing Those Fantastic Lives as one of the Halloween season’s most anticipated books.
Read MoreCliff Garstang hosts a really cool Q&A over at his site, and I’m honored to be featured there today.
Read MoreMusic guides me, just like it does a lot of people. It was really cool to be able to create a playlist for Those Fantastic Lives over at Largehearted Boy. Thank you to David for having me on the site.
Read MoreThank you to Alabama Writers’ Cooperative for interviewing me about Those Fantastic Lives. In the conversation, I talk about strangeness, home, and my book.
Read MoreThank you to the Courier Journal for running an article about my book’s upcoming release. It’s especially cool to receive love from my hometown.
Read MoreVol 1. Brooklyn was kind enough to run my story “The Mooneaters” in promotion of my collection’s upcoming release.
Read MoreI started working on my second collection at the start of the year. I have a handful of stories out at magazines for publication consideration. I’m happy to report that my first one has landed.
Read MoreI’ve read all of Wiley Cash’s novels, but I’ve never reviewed one for publication. I was glad to be able to fix that when asked to review his latest novel, When Ghosts Come Home, for Chapter 16.
Read MoreThe folks at Horror Obsessive released a fantastic review of Those Fantastic Lives, and I’ve been over the moon since I read it earlier this afternoon.
Read MoreI’m excited to announce that I’m an official panelist at this year’s Southern Festival of Books, where I’ll be talking about Those Fantastic Lives on a panel with fellow short story writer Andrew Siegrist, who is the author of We Imagined It Was Rain.
Read MoreI have a new collection in the running for my favorite book of the year, and that book is Becky Hagenston’s The Age of Discovery and Other Stories. In these stories, there are magical bread loaves, robots, and future museums.
Read MoreThank you to the kind folks at Big Indie Books for allowing me the space to write about contemporary magical realism short stories high school classrooms might appreciate. I got to talk about Arimah, Bell, Sparks, Russell, and Schweblin.
Read MoreIt’s hard to believe the official release of Those Fantastic Lives: And Other Strange Stories is only one month away. I’ve been overwhelmed by the generosity of so many readers and literary folks.
Read MoreSilas House is, in my mind, one of the country’s most under-appreciated writers. His novels are fantastic, and his essays are just as good.
Read MoreIt was a pleasure to be able to talk to Garstang over at Southern Review of Books.
Read MoreExciting news: I’m the new Fiction Editor over at Qu, which is the literary magazine put out by us Queens University of Charlotte MFA folks. I’m honored to be selected for this role, and I’m stoked to begin the journey.
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