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All Over

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About Me

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I'm a collection of short stories that Dzanc Books is publishing on October 23, 2007. I'll be their first title, and Roy Kesey's second book, following his fantastic novella, Nothing in the World .

Purchase All Over.

Read reviews of All Over in The Believer , January Magazine , The L.A. Times Book Review , Time Out Chicago , Time Out New York , Rain Taxi and Newpages.com .

Listen to an interview with Roy Kesey and Dan Wickett on the Bat Segundo Show .

For media and sales inquiries, contact Dzanc Books

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

In a Bear's Eye and Bob, or Man on Boat.

My Blog

All Over a Finalist

All Over by Roy Kesey, our first title, has been named a finalist in the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year short story collection category. It's been named with some other fine titles and I'm fairly ...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:56:00 GMT

Days 6 and 7: The Seal That Was Not a Seal

A six a.m. flight out of Memphis with a connection in Atlanta gets me down to Charlotte, where I am picked up by none other than Dzanc's own publicist, the delightful Lauren Snyder. Together we make t...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 01:27:00 GMT

Day 5: Reading 4 (The Ribs)

A friend of mine named Joe Boone picked me up at the airport in Memphis.The thing is: he drove up from Birmingham, Alabama, to do so. He didn't seem to think this was a particularly big deal. Memphis ...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:14:00 GMT

Day 4: Reading 3 (The Fixx)

The final three paragraphs of this post will give you a pretty good idea of how things went in Chicago. My friend Gail Siegel, herself a class-A writer, did us right in every possible sense, including...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:57:00 GMT

Day 3: Reading 2 (The Risk)

Now, if I were to write up everything that happened on this day, it would fill volumes. But keeping in mind my pledge from yesterday, and relying on the kindness of strangers and friends, here are the...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:55:00 GMT

Interlude

I have it on good authority...Oh, what the hell, I'll just do the whole conversation:Lu: These are too long.Me: What are you talking about? I didn't even mention the funny stuff on SkyMall! The clock ...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:53:00 GMT

Day 2: Reading 1, Ann Arbor (The Launch)

Day 2: Reading 1, Ann Arbor (The Launch)A quick breakfast and slow coffee with Brad and Karen, just long enough at the computer to receive the excellent news that Subtropics had accepted a story of mi...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:46:00 GMT

The All Over Tour: Day 1

This, from Roy's own personal blog on his myspace page (click the link on our Friends list): The All Over Tour: Day 1And so it begins: on an airplane.Three of them, actually--Beijing to San Francis...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:37:00 GMT