Events

Mon 9/17  7pm-8pm George Singleton reads from his new short story collection Stray Decorum Dzanc Books  $15.95 pb  fiction/short stories 9781938103544 Eleven stories, all previously published in journals like Atlantic Monthly, Oxford American, and The Georgia Review, in which George Singleton brings small-town South Carolina alive. Using everyday situations like a dog needing its annual vaccination, and buckets of humorous observations, Singleton pokes and prods his readers into realizing we're all simply restless for a pat on the head. "Singleton is a raconteur of trends, countertrends, obsessions and odd characters." —Morning Edition, NPR "Singleton's hilarious insights come early and often." —New York Times Book Review  "Singleton may have invented a new genre. Call it The Hoot." —Kirkus Reviews    George Singleton lives  in Pickens County, South Carolina  with ceramicist Glenda Guion and their mixture of strays. More than a hundred of his stories have been published nationally in magazines and anthologies. He teaches writing at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities.