Kyle Minor

Check out Kyle's website for regular updates: www.kyleminor.com
WANT TO READ SOME OF MY WORK? Check out "You Shall Go Out with Joy and Be Led Forth with Peace" in the Random House anthology Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers: The Best New Voices of 2006 .
RECENT AND FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS:
DEBUT BOOK
In the Devil's Territory, a collection of stories available in bookstores November 2008, from Dzanc Books
EDITED ANTHOLOGY
The Other Chekhov (with Okla Elliott, forthcoming late February 2008 from New American Press)
FICTION
"A Day Meant to Do Less," Best American Mystery Stories 2008, ed. Otto Penzler and George Pelecanos
"A Day Meant to Do Less," a novella, Gettysburg Review, Summer 2007
"Dressing the Dead," Surreal South '09, ed. Pinckney Benedict and Laura Benedict (forthcoming 2009, Press 53)
"The Truth and All Its Ugly," Surreal South, ed. Pinckney Benedict and Laura Benedict (Press 53), Halloween 2007
"The Dog," Dogzplot, forthcoming 2008
"They Take You," Plots with Guns, forthcoming 2008
"The Navy Man," Freight Stories, June 2008
"Happy Nineteen," Orchid, forthcoming in 2008
"Dogs," Sou'wester, Fall 2006
"Snow Fell in Florida," Carolina Quarterly, January 2005
NONFICTION
"The San Diego Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl Party," The Southern Review, Autumn 2007
"Suspended," Brevity, Winter 2009
"This is Not That," Waccamaw, forthcoming 2008
"Deus ex Chekhov," CARGOJune/July 2008
"Waiting," as the introduction to Visiting Hours, ed. Dan Wickett (Press 53, 2008)
"Opening Ceremonies" (reprint), Scoring from Second: Baseball from Life, ed. Philip Deaver (University of Nebraska Press, 2007)
"First, the Teeth," Redivider, Fall 2006
"You Shall Go Out with Joy and Be Led Forth with Peace," Twentysomethings Essays by Twentysomething Writers: The Best New Voices of 2006 (Random House, 2006)
"Lay Me Down in the Blue Grass," Mid American Review, Spring 2006
"Opening Ceremonies," River Teeth, Fall 2005
"The Park City Dances," Quarterly West, Spring 2005
POETRY
"My sleep was like a long swim," Sou'wester, Fall 2007
"Smart-Ass Sometimes Iambic Always Quantitative Syllabic Autobiographical Arguing-Against-Form-Absent-Feeling 19-Word-per-Stanza 5-Stanza with a Prose-Envoy-to-Send-You-Home Abecedarium Rag in G Mixolydian, to be Performed on the Glockenspiel, Allegro," 21 Stars, April 2007
"After Norma Died, Ollie Kittredge Moved to Islamorada & Took Up Fine Carpentry," Dionysia, Spring 2006
COMIC BOOK STORY
"Kyle Minor v. Else Richter," illustrated by Joshua Archer, Versus Anthology, ed. J. Dillon Woods (forthcoming 2009)
INTERVIEWS
"A Conversation with Lawrence Weschler," The Journal", Winter 2007
Kyle interviewed by Chad Simpson
ESSAY-REVIEWS
"Charles Baxter and The Art of Subtext," Pleiades, Spring 2008
RECENT & UPCOMING READINGS & APPEARANCES:
November 2008 IN THE DEVIL'S TERRITORY MINI-TOUR
Mon, Nov. 3 – Lexington/Nicholasville, Kentucky, Jessamine County Public Library w/ Jim Tomlinson
Wed, Nov. 5 (tentative) – either Athens, GA (w/ Jillian Weise and Ida Stewart), or Myrtle Beach, SC (w/ Joe Oestreich)
Thu., Nov. 6 , 7 pm – Kernersville, NC, Shakespeare & Co. w/ Susan Woodring
Fri., Nov. 7, 7 pm – Winston-Salem, NC, Borders, w/ Denzil Strickland
Sat., Nov. 8 (tentative) – either Athens, GA, or Myrtle Beach, SC
LIVE NUDE GIRL IN THE DEVIL’S TERRITORY Tour Dates, Spring 2009
(with Kathleen Rooney, author of the memoir Live Nude Girl
Tues., February 3: Skylight Books, Los Angeles, CA, with Kathleen Rooney and This American Life's Joshuah Bearman
Wed., February 4, 7:30 pm: Modern Times Bookstore in the Mission District, San Francisco, CA, with Kathleen Rooney and Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket)
Thu., February 5: Powell’s City of Books, Portland, OR, with Kathleen Rooney and TBA
Friday, February 6: Seattle, WA, with Kathleen Rooney and Jonathan Evison
Saturday, February 7: Bellingham, WA at Village Books with Kathleen Rooney and Elizabeth Colen
Sunday, February 8 (date tentative): Vancouver, BC with Kathleen Rooney
Monday, February 9 (date tentative): Minneapolis, MN, with Kathleen Rooney and Rebecca Kanner
Tuesday, February 10 (date tentative): Milwaukee, WI, with Kathleen Rooney
Wednesday, February 11- Saturday 14: AWP Conference in Chicago, IL
Dzanc Reading: Kyle Minor, Roy Kesey, Mike Czyzniewjiewski, Allison Amend, Louella Bryant
Panel on Postevangelical Literature: Kyle Minor, Pinckney Benedict, Scott Kaukonen, David McGlynn, Angela Pneuman
Table for Rose Metal Press at the Book Fair: Kathleen Rooney with Abby Beckel
signing at University of Arkansas Press Table: Kathleen Rooney
Monday, February 16 (date tentative): Brookline Booksmith, Brookline, MA with Kyle Minor, Kathleen Rooney and Steve Almond
Tuesday, February 17 (date tentative): Provincetown, MA, likely at the Provincetown Association of Art Museum (PAAM), with Kathleen Rooney
Wednesday, February 18 (date tentative): Providence, RI, with Kathleen Rooney
Thursday, February 19: NYC, with Kathleen Rooney and Rebecca Barry
Friday, February 20 (date tentative): Philadelphia, PA with Kathleen Rooney and Caroline Noble Whitbeck
Saturday, February 21: Baltimore, MD, with Kathleen Rooney
Sunday, February 22: Washington, DC, with Kathleen Rooney
Monday, February 23: Charlottesville, VA, with Kathleen Rooney and Megan Fishmann
Friday, February 27 (date tentative): Memphis, TN or Fayetteville, AK, with Kathleen Rooney
Wednesday, March 11 at 7:00pm: Shaman Drum, Ann Arbor, MI with Kyle Minor, Kathleen Rooney and Dan Wickett
March 9-13: Ann Arbor, MI, Greenhills School Visiting Writer Residency and evening reading TBA
Monday, March 23: Carbondale, IL, SIU-Carbondale, with Kathleen Rooney, and Laura Benedict.
Tuesday, March 24: Indianapolis, IN, with Kathleen Rooney and Andrew Scott
March 25-26: Muncie, IN, Ball State University, In Print Festival, with Nickole Brown and Laurie Lindeen
April 9: Columbus, OH, Ohio State University
April 10: Delaware, OH, Ohio Wesleyan University Festival of Writing with Erin McGraw and Steve Davenport
May 4-8: Ann Arbor, MI, Greenhills School Visiting Writer Residency with evening reading TBA
Dates TBA: Chicago, and possibly St. Louis and/or Champaign-Urbana
Tour Blog: http://booktourdiary.blogspot.com
2007-2008
Oct. 5-8 - NY, NY (not a public event.)
October 25 - Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL (Sou'wester Reading with Steve Davenport), 7 pm
Oct. 27 - Southern Illinois University- Carbondale, Carbondale, IL (Surreal South Reading at the Devil's Kitchen Literary Festival with Pinckney Benedict, Laura Benedict, Rodney Jones, Jacinda Townsend, and Jon Tribble), 10 am
October 31 - Columbus, OH, Barnes & Noble Lennox Town Center (Halloween Surreal South Reading with Lee K. Abbott and Andrew Hudgins), 7 pm
November 7 - Toledo, OH, 7 pm, Calvino's
November 9 - Bowling Green, OH, Bowling Green State University, Winter Wheat Literary Festival, 4:00 pm
Jan. 29 - Feb. 2 - New York, NY, Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference
Week of May 11 - Kauai, HI
August 2-9 - Callebasse and Port-au-Prince, Haiti
2006-2007
October 10 - New York, NY, KGB Bar
October 31 - Columbus, OH, Barnes & Noble, Easton Town Center
November 9 - Baltimore, MD, (not a public event.)
April 25, 2007 - Barley's Underground, Columbus, OH (in the Short North district, across from the North Market)
June 2, 2007 - Drake Theater, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH