Inside this Issue:
- The Cult of George Singleton
- Jennifer Militello
- Deborah Ager
- Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door
- Leigh Edwards and David Kirby
- Chad Sweeney and Rhett Iseman Trull
- Richard Price
- Quinn Dalton New!
- Robert Pinsky
- Christina Storozkova
From The Cult of George Singleton:
George Singleton. I’ve heard tales all of my writerly life. Bunyan-esque stories. A wild man. A giant personality. A trickster, a wise-ass, a snake-handler, a Guggenpulitzheimer recipient, a bawdy drunk, a newly avowed teetotaler, a genius, a madman.
I seemed to be literarily doomed to the role of following him. If I showed up to give a reading, invariably George had just blown through town. I knew that—by comparison—my readings were tame. It was like the audience had just been treated to the spectacle of a man-versus-bear wrestling match, and now I showed up with a tubercular parakeet in a cage who couldn’t much sing, what with its little parakeet coughs.
And so when I finally met George, I was immediately surprised that he wasn’t seven foot two inches tall…
You can, and should, read more from “The Cult of George Singleton.” Through Wednesday we’ll have…let’s call them “anecdotes” since they’re perhaps too true to be tall tales—anecdotes about George Singleton as told by writers such as William Giraldi, David Kirby, Steve Almond, Michael Gills, Julianna Baggott, and others. Like the talented Mr. Singleton, the stories are both humorous and not always for the faint of heart.
We also have a great selection of our regular content, including interviews with Jennifer Militello and Deborah Ager, a review of Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door, and podcasts of Leigh Edwards and David Kirby as well as Chad Sweeney and Rhett Iseman Trull reading from their latest works. From our archives, Richard Price reads from his 2008 novel, Lush Life, and Jessica Pitchford interviews Quinn Dalton.
Finally, to celebrate this year's Writers Harvest Benefit, we have a new interview with our guest of honor, three-time Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. Each fall, FSU's creative writing program hosts a reading and silent auction to benefit America's Second Harvest Food Banks of the Big Bend. We hope you'll join us this Tuesday, November 10, in the Grand Ballroom at the FSU Alumni Center. Find more information here and here.
Photograph by Christina Storozkova.
