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George Singleton has published twelve books, including These People Are Us; The Half-Mammals of Dixie; Why Dogs Chase Cars; Novel; Drowning in Gruel; Work Shirts for Madmen; Pep Talks, Warnings, and Screeds; Stray Decorum; Between Wrecks; Calloustown; Staff Picks; You Want More: Selected Stories. He has also published over two hundred stories in magazines and journals like the Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s One Story, Playboy, Georgia Review, Zoetrope, North American Review, Story, LitMag, Southern Review, Mid-American Review, Fiction International, The Quarterly, Carolina Quarterly, Agni, Oxford American, Virginia Quarterly Review, Five Points, Black Warrior Review, Subtropics, Texas Review, and Glimmer Train. He lives in Spartanburg SC.
“Legendary South Carolina absurdist Singleton weighs in with another rollicking collection. … A Southern original adds to his gallery of Southern originals.” —Kirkus starred review “Singleton delivers an offbeat collection filled with Southern eccentrics. … Singleton lights up the colorful and odd situations with wit and verve. Southern fiction fans will have a blast.” —Publishers Weekly “Please know that it is against my nature to fling the word ‘genius’ around like a sandlot football. I’ve used it maybe five times, and in all of those instances I applied it to composers, partly because I don’t understand how they do what they do. Being a fiction writer, I understand all too well how we do what we do. But George Singleton is a genius, because he repeatedly manages to make me laugh, often uproariously, when my first impulse is to cry. How he accomplishes this feat is as mysterious to me as the twelve-tone music of, say, Arnold Schoenberg. But I know this: contemporary American literature—and I daresay the country itself—would be more vibrant if we had more writers like him. George Singleton is something perhaps even rarer than a genius. He’s a treasure.” —Steve Yarbrough, author of Stay Gone Days
