Praying Drunk

Stories, Questions

von Kyle Minor

Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

- Author has strong relationships to the literary blog community: HTMLGiant, The Rumpus, The Millions, Bookslut, Big Other,The Short Review, and others.- Skylight Books, BookCourt, Prairie Lights, Nightbird Books, and University Bookstore in Seattle were enthusiastic proponents of In Devil's Territory, Minor's first book in 2008.- Readings with Benjamin Percy, Roxane Gay, Emma Straub, Matt Bell, and other prominent younger writers with whom author has strong personal ties.- Author's criticism has been well- and widely published, and we can expect review coverage in those venues, including Salon.com, Esquire, Volt, and others.- Author plans to include university and conference visits in his book tour, increasing visibility for potential course adoption.- Regional appeal in Florida, Kentucky, and the South, where many stories take place, and in Iowa and Ohio, where author is a student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and professor at the University of Toledo.- Author makes several autobiographical appearances in the book.- Author has an established following among the alternative crime writing crowd. Will approach Jedediah Ayres, who runs Noir at the Bar reading series and writes a column for Barnes & Noble's website.