You Want More - Selected Stories of George Singleton

Thirty stories, collected in one volume for the very first time, from one of the South's best known and most acclaimed short story writers. With his signature darkly acerbic and sharp-witted humor, George Singleton has built a reputation as one of the most astute and wise observers of the South. Now Tom Franklin introduces this master of the form with a compilation of acclaimed and prize-winning short fiction spanning twenty years and eight collections, including stories originally published in outlets like the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Playboy, the Georgia Review, the Southern Review, and many more. A lovelorn and chatty euthanasia vet arrives at a couples' house to put down their dog, Probate; a father-to-be searches his workplace-a bar-for a replacement sonogram after recording an episode of Bonanza over the original; an unlikely romance sparks between a librarian and a professional bowler while they compete to win an RV; a father takes his son to visit the many ex-girlfriends that could have been his mother. These stories bear the influence of Flannery O'Connor and Raymond Carver, at other times Lewis Nordan and Donald Barthelme, and touch on the mysteries of childhood, the complexities of human relationships, and the absurdity of everyday life, its inexorable defeats and small triumphs. Assembled here for the very first time, You Want More showcases the body of work, hilarious and incisive, that has cemented George Singleton's place among the South's greatest living writers.

About the author

George Singleton has published eight collections of stories, two novels, and a book of writing advice. Over 200 of his stories have appeared in magazines such as the Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Playboy, the Georgia Review, the Southern Review, the Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, the Hillsdale Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and the Corrington Award for Literary Excellence. He lives in Spartanburg, SC, where he holds the John C. Cobb Chair in Humanities at Wofford College.

Summary

Thirty stories, collected in one volume for the very first time, from one of the South's best known and most acclaimed short story writers.

With his signature darkly acerbic and sharp-witted humor, George Singleton has built a reputation as one of the most astute and wise observers of the South. Now Tom Franklin introduces this master of the form with a compilation of acclaimed and prize-winning short fiction spanning twenty years and eight collections, including stories originally published in outlets like the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Playboy, the Georgia Review, the Southern Review, and many more. A lovelorn and chatty euthanasia vet arrives at a couples’ house to put down their dog, Probate; a father-to-be searches his workplace—a bar—for a replacement sonogram after recording an episode of Bonanza over the original; an unlikely romance sparks between a librarian and a professional bowler while they compete to win an RV; a father takes his son to visit the many ex-girlfriends that could have been his mother.

These stories bear the influence of Flannery O’Connor and Raymond Carver, at other times Lewis Nordan and Donald Barthelme, and touch on the mysteries of childhood, the complexities of human relationships, and the absurdity of everyday life, its inexorable defeats and small triumphs. Assembled here for the very first time, You Want More showcases the body of work, hilarious and incisive, that has cemented George Singleton’s place among the South’s greatest living writers.

Foreword

CONFIRMED Reviews:

Garden & Gun
Charleston P&C
Chapter 16 -- TN newspapers
Greenville News
Atlanta Journal Constitution
The Augusta Chronicle

CONFIRMED RADIO

Thacker Mountain Radio Hour
WUTC Tennessee
Bookmarks with Don Noble / Alabama Public Radio

CONFIRMED Interviews:

Mountain Xpress
Interview with Daniell Wallace, outlet TBA

Digital tour:

Hub City Bookshop Launch with Tom Franklin, Spartanburg, SC

M. Judson Books with Ashley Warlick, Greenville, SC

Square Books with M.O. Walsh, Oxford, MS 

Page 158 Books, Wake Forest, NC

Atlanta History Center with Ron Rash, Atlanta, GA

Lemuria Books with Chris Offutt, Jackson, MS

Malaprops Bookstore with Bronwen Dickey, Asheville, NC

Union Ave Books, Knoxville, TN

Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh, NC

Flyleaf Books with Lee Smith, Chapel Hill, NC

Fountain Books, Richmond, VA

Southern Festival of the Books with Ron Rash, Nashville, TN

 

Publicity and Outreach

• Outreach to enthusiastic readers of Southern fiction


• ARCs To Reviewers, indie booksellers, library outreach. Goodreads Giveaway 


• Seeking adoption in Southern bookclubs, First Editions buys


• Seeking coverage in newspapers The New York Times, The Washington Post, LA Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune, NPR and more.


• Interviews and reviews on literary sites including: LitHub, Electric Lit, the Chicago Review of Books, Southern Review of Books


• Off the book essay placement including essays


• Promotion through the Cold Mountain Fund Book Series including limited events with Series funder Charles Frazier.


• National Online Advertising


• Public radio campaign


• Social Media Outreach Including: Facebook, Twitter & Instagram 

 

Product details

• Authors: George Singleton
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 29.07.2022, delayed
• EAN: 9798885740012
• ISBN: 979-8-88574-001-2
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Cold Mountain Fund Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Small Town & Rural