· Kyle Minor wants you to know that “Praying Drunk” — his second story collection, after “In the Devil’s Territory” — is not actually, or only, a collection. In the epigraph, he warns Author: Nicholas Mancusi. kyle minor is the author of praying drunk, winner of the story prize spotlight award. recent stories, essays, interviews, and reviews appear online and in print in best american mystery stories, best american nonrequired reading, esquire, the atlantic, salon, iowa review, missouri review, story magazine, and the new york times book review. · Sharon Harrigan on Kyle Minor’s second collection, Praying Drunk, "a tipsy, dizzy spiritual pleading." Kyle Minor’s second story collection is one of the most aptly titled books I’ve read. So much about Praying Drunk (Sarabande Books) feels like a tipsy, dizzy spiritual pleading. The deity invoked in these stories is sometimes the biblical God (playfully called “Big G”), but more often the .
kyle minor is the author of praying drunk, winner of the story prize spotlight award. recent stories, essays, interviews, and reviews appear online and in print in best american mystery stories, best american nonrequired reading, esquire, the atlantic, salon, iowa review, missouri review, story magazine, and the new york times book review. Kyle Minor wants you to know that "Praying Drunk" — his second story collection, after "In the Devil's Territory" — is not actually, or only, a collection. roundup of praying drunk reviews, interviews, etc. Posted by Kyle Minor February 4, March 3, Posted in Uncategorized "Similar to a great magic trick, the 13 stories in Minor's (In the Devil's Territory) latest lure reader investment with strong visuals while simultaneously pulling the rug out from underfoot with clever.
Titles Praying Drunk, Kyle Minor. The characters in Praying Drunk speak in tongues, torture their classmates, fall in love, hunt for immortality, abandon their children, keep machetes beneath passenger seats, and collect porcelain figurines. A man crushes pills on the bathroom counter while his son watches from the hallway; missionaries clumsily navigate an uprising with barbed wire and broken glass; a boy disparages memorized scripture, facedown on the asphalt, as he fails. Sarabande Books, Kyle Minor’s Praying Drunk has been building steam for months, ever since its publication announcement in Minor’s previous collection, In the Devil’s Territory, () was, like this new one, challenging, but not in the sense of experimental or perplexing: his work includes a variety of times, shifts, and psychologies. Praying Drunk moves from the southern United States to Haiti, and explores the lives of musicians and missionaries, and uniquely rendered. Praying Drunk: Stories by Kyle Minor | Editorial Reviews. NOOK Book (eBook) $ $ Save 25% Current price is $, Original price is $ You Save 25%.
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