Books Over Drinks with George Singleton

Witty and surprising, George Singleton’s latest short fiction collection welcomes both new and longtime readers with his signature offbeat humor. If you love George Saunders and Jill McCorkle, you do not want to miss Books Over Drinks with George Singleton for Wounded Boarders! REVIEWS: “From the well-known Southern humorist, another fun house gallery of small-town misfits at the ends of their tethers. As the nation’s, and the region’s, politics get ever more divided and mean, Singleton’s satire grows darker and sharper. Yet what makes it work, as always, is an essential sweetness and decency…A Southern comic master in top form.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review “Without a doubt one of the very finest storytellers out there. . . . George Singleton is one of the funniest writers out there, and also one of the wisest.”—Jill McCorkle, author of July 7 and Life after Life “Please know that it is against my nature to fling the word ‘genius’ around like a sandlot football. I’ve used it maybe five times, and in all of those instances I applied it to composers, partly because I don’t understand how they do what they do. Being a fiction writer, I understand all too well how we do what we do. But George Singleton is a genius, because he repeatedly manages to make me laugh, often uproariously, when my first impulse is to cry. How he accomplishes this feat is as mysterious to me as the twelve-tone music of, say, Arnold Schoenberg. But I know this: contemporary American literature—and I daresay the country itself—would be more vibrant if we had more writers like him. George Singleton is something perhaps even rarer than a genius. He’s a treasure.” —Steve Yarbrough, author of Stay Gone Days “Singleton is a raconteur of trends, countertrends, obsessions and odd characters.”—Morning Edition, NPR ABOUT THE AUTHOR: George Singleton has published ten collections of stories, two novels, a book of writing advice, and a collection of essays. Over 250 of his stories have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Esquire, Story, One Story, Playboy, and elsewhere. Non-fiction in Garden and Gun, Oxford American, Best Food Writing, and elsewhere. He’s received a Pushcart Prize, and a Guggenheim fellowship. His collection The Curious Lives of Nonprofit Martyrs was named a Top 100 Book of 2023 by Kirkus Reviews. A member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, he lives in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Never been to Books Over Drinks? Your ticket includes entry to the event, a signed copy of the book, and a signature cocktail or mocktail.