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  • Work Shirts for Madmen

    A Novel

    by George Singleton ...
    A quirky tale of a hard-drinking artist by an author who "writes about the rural South without sentimentality . . . but with plenty of sharp-witted humor" (NPR Morning Edition).Renegade artist Harp Spillman is lower than a bow-legged fire ant. Because of an unhealthy relationship with the bottle, he's ruined his reputation as one of the South's preeminent commissioned metal sculptors. And his ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Drowning in Gruel

    Stories

    by George Singleton ...
    Take a darkly hilarious trip through a South Carolina town with the "unchallenged king of the comic Southern short story" ( The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)."Usually stories about small, quirky, southern towns are full of adorable, quirky characters that share their unusual philosophies with us and teach us how to enjoy life (think Forrest Gump or even Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil). ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • You Want More

    Selected Stories of George Singleton

    by George Singleton ...
    Series series Cold Mountain Fund Series
    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, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Curious Lives of Nonprofit Martyrs

    by George Singleton ...
    Celebrated Southern author George Singleton delivers a new collection of short fiction, brilliant and absurd, for fans of George Saunders and Tom FranklinA restaurant owner runs into trouble when his wife starts a well-intentioned, poorly named rooster rescue. A boy navigates his parents’ split between a stretched phone cord and a flooded septic tank. A drunk sequestered in the middle of nowhere ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to South Carolina Writers

    Edited by Tom Mack ...
    Series series South Carolina Encyclopedia Guides
    A comprehensive guide to South Carolina writers who have made significant contributions to the state's literary traditionThe South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to South Carolina Writers expands the range of writers included in the landmark South Carolina Encyclopedia. This guide updates the entries on writers featured in the original encyclopedia and augments that list substantially with dozens of ... Read more

    $19.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wounded Boarders

    Stories

    by George Singleton ...
    Witty and surprising, George Singleton’s latest short fiction collection welcomes both new and longtime readers with his signature offbeat humor, perfect for fans of George Saunders and Jill McCorkleA seasoned house flipper befriends a club of hook-handed, shuffleboard-playing war veterans to deter a potential stalker. A couple in a middle-of-nowhere ghost town quells their boredom by luring would ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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  • Staff Picks

    Stories

    by George Singleton, Michael Griffith ...
    Series series Yellow Shoe Fiction
    It’s Father’s Day 1972 and a young boy’s dad takes him to visit a string of unimpressive ex-girlfriends that could have been his mother; the unconventional detective work of a koan-speaking, Kung Fu–loving uncle solves a case of arson during a pancake breakfast; and a former geology professor, recovering from addiction, finds himself sharing a taxicab with specters from a Jim Crow–era lynching. ... Read more

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  • ASIDES

    Occasional Essays on Dogs, Food, Restaurants, Bars, Hangovers, Jobs, Music, Family Trees, Robbery, Relationships, Being Brought Up Questionably, Et Cetera

    by George Singleton ...
    "George Singleton is a very funny man. He could write about a tootsie roll and keep me reading," says Abigail Thomas, author of Safekeeping and A Three Dog Life, about Singleton's new collection of personal essays.Readers of his celebrated short story collections (The Half-Mammals of Dixie, You Want More, and The Curious Lives of Non-Profit Martyrs, among others) know just what a master ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Novel

    by George Singleton ...
    Set in the town of Gruel, South Carolina, this first novel by George Singleton, master of the comic short story, is the tale of a young man named Novel (his brother's name is James; his sister's is Joyce), a professional snake handler who stumbles across strange doings while he sits in a motel room writing his autobiography. As he struggles to recount his life story, he uncovers-and finds himself ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Half-Mammals of Dixie

    by George Singleton ...
    George Singleton, who's had many stories published in the best literary journals, has recently burst into the big time with appearances in Playboy, Zoetrope, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine and Book. The stories in his new collection are wild and wooly - or maybe we should say wild and half-wooly. In any case, they're definitely not for the creationist crowd or for the laughter impaired. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Why Dogs Chase Cars

    Tales of a Beleaguered Boyhood

    by George Singleton ...
    Series series Shannon Ravenel Novels
    These fourteen funny stories tell the tale of a beleaguered boyhood down home where the dogs still run loose. As a boy growing up in the tiny backwater town of Forty-Five, South Carolina (where everybody is pretty much one beer short of a six-pack), all Mendal Dawes wants is out.It's not just his hometown that's hopeless. Mendal's father is just as bad. Embarrassing his son to death nearly every ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • These People Are Us

    by George Singleton ...
    "A bouncer videotapes an episode of Bonanza over his wife's sonogram and scrambles to find a replacement, an ex-poet takes a job driving a van that provides mammograms, and an office-supply salesman falls for a woman from an all-girl wrestling revue in a town called Kingdom Come in George Singleton's These People Are Us."--Publishers Weekly ... Read more

    $8.69 USD