Podcast appearances and mentions of kyle minor

Most importantly: Here's my Bookshop.org list for Frank Bill, where you can pre-order BACK TO THE DIRT, and pick up all of Frank's other books, too. BTTD drop 5/9!I first met Frank Bill in his home town of Corydon Indiana, on September 10th, 2011. It was the book release party for his first book, CRIMES IN SOUTHERN INDIANA. It's also where I first met Donald Ray Pollock, Matthew McBride, Scott Phillips, Jedidiah Ayres, Kyle Minor, and (in person) David James Keaton. It's also where I first met Waffle House. It was a significant trip for me.Since that time, I've done reviews for all of Frank's books, and interviewed him several times. I have a long history with this author, and I really enjoy his writing. So, when I got wind of his new book releasing, I was so excited that I had a podcast to invite him on to! What follows is a little over an hour of discussion about war, mental illness, drugs, and other things that can erode and destroy a person. You may think that, because Frank is a crime author, we dig into the dirty grittiness of life. Honestly it's more about the devastating effect all of these things can have on people, families, communities, and a national identity. We talk about how it's important to honor family and history, and to make an effort to understand people - especially people who come from different backgrounds. It was a great conversation that I hope you enjoy. For anyone viewing the YouTube video: There was an issue with the video file on Frank's side, so about halfway in to the recording, his feed goes to a still photo. The audio is fine, thankfully. We just lost some of the video. Apologies for making you look at my face more.YouTube video: Get full access to The ARC Party at www.thearcparty.com/subscribe

In this episode, we discuss:Creative writing, skateboarding and teaching amid the pandemic with John Thurgood. How are we stories within stories? What does it mean to explore a place through skateboarding and art? How do we connect course materials to students' lived experiences?Highlights include:A quote from Kyle Minor's Praying Drunk (1:45)Creative writing and skateboarding (7:31)Piquing students' curiosities and getting them invested in composition through researching the communities they live in (13:15)How we're stories within stories (15:11)Balancing a rigorous curriculum with teaching and learning amid the coronavirus pandemic (21:10)Keeping an open dialogue with students and navigating what it is to be a student right now (27:13)How we as instructors can be catalysts for our students (35:57)Resources MentionedMinor, Kyle. Praying Drunk: Stories, Questions. Sarabande Books, 2014. https://amzn.to/35AhdrbAbout John ThurgoodJohn Thurgood is a doctoral student and Advanced Opportunity Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His stories have appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Story|Houston and elsewhere. His book reviews can be found at Electric Literature and Necessary Fiction. He has been a teacher and educator for ten years and has taught all over the US. Find more at www.johnthurgood.com.Music“Bird Therapist” by Craig MacArthurSupport the show (https://stereotype.life/donate/)

Kyle Minor walks us through the story of Jacob in week 6 of In The Beginning.

Are you alive for Christ or just dry dead bones? Kyle Minor walks us through what Jesus said about Murder & Anger and how we can come alive in Christ.

Kyle Minor, Adrienne Lyday, & Eric Lyday take a look at the perspectives found in the scandalous story of King David, Bathsheba, and Uriah.

Trevor Ile, Kyle Minor, & Eric Lyday take us through the different perspectives in the parable of the Prodigal Son.

Praying Drunk (Sarabande Books) Skylight Books is thrilled to welcome back Kyle Minor. For today's reading he'll be joined by another Skylight favorite,Amelia Gray. 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 to fend off his bully. From Kentucky to Florida to Haiti, these seemingly disparate lives are woven together within a series of nested repetitions, enacting the struggle to remain physically and spiritually alive throughout the untamable turbulence of their worlds. In a masterful blend of fiction, autobiography, and surrealism, Kyle Minor shows us that the space between fearlessness and terror is often very small. Long before Praying Drunk reaches its plaintive, pitch-perfect end. Kyle Minor is a columnist at Salon and The Nation. His work has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories, Best American Nonrequired Reading, Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers, Forty Stories: New Voices from Harper Perennial, Esquire, Volt and many others. He is the winner of the 2012 Iowa Review Prize for Short Fiction, the Tara M. Kroger Prize for Short Fiction, and is the author of In The Devil's Territory (Dzanc, 2008).Amelia Gray grew up in Tucson, Arizona. Her first collection of stories, AM/PM, was published in 2009. Her second collection, Museum of the Weird, was awarded the Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize. She is the author of the novel Threats. She lives in Los Angeles.

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. From Kentucky to Florida to Haiti, these seemingly disparate lives are woven together within a series of nested repetitions, enacting the struggle to remain physically and […] The post Kyle Minor : Praying Drunk appeared first on Tin House.

Kyle Minor is the guest. His new story collection, Praying Drunk, is now available from Sarabande Books. Publishers Weekly raves "Similar to a great magic trick, the 13 stories in Minor's latest lure reader investment with strong visuals while simultaneously pulling the rug out from underfoot with clever, literary sleights-of-hand. Though not necessarily linked in the traditional sense, there is a sequential order to the collection--ideas, locations, incidents, and characters echo as the volume chugs forward--and the result is an often dazzling, emotional, funny, captivating puzzle."  And Kirkus, in a starred review, says “An award-winning short fiction author offers twelve stories so ripe with realism as to suggest a roman à clef. . . . This brilliant collection unfolds around a fractured narrative of faith and friends and family, loved and lost.” Monologue topics: mail, co-branding, the inevitability of co-branding, Katy Perry, Rihanna, the virtue of unskillful co-branding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Live Reading: Anthony Neil Smith and Kyle Minor

Live Reading: Anthony Neil Smith and Kyle Minor

Whenever an internet missive or blip crosses my screen with Kyle Minor's name attached, I open it up in awe of his apparently continual reading and writing and thinking acutely about the finer side of the bookish life. I don't know whether this relentless pursuit of the craft can be had without a truckload of drugs, but I also think the drugs necessary for his task probably haven't even been concocted yet. You could get your brain into top form fast by looking closely at the right 2/3 of his legendary reading list...

Whenever an internet missive or blip crosses my screen with Kyle Minor's name attached, I open it up in awe of his apparently continual reading and writing and thinking acutely about the finer side of the bookish life. I don't know whether this relentless pursuit of the craft can be had without a truckload of drugs, but I also think the drugs necessary for his task probably haven't even been concocted yet. You could get your brain into top form fast by looking closely at the right 2/3 of his legendary reading list...