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Ohio State University.
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Praying Drunk
( "I finished this book with my heart pounding and gratef...)
"I finished this book with my heart pounding and grateful, my coffee cold and my smile wide and crying like a baby."—Daniel Handler The characters in Praying Drunk speak in tongues, torture their classmates, fall in love, hunt for immortality, abandon their children, keep machetes beneath passenger seats, and collect porcelain figurines. A man crushes pills on the bathroom counter while his son watches from the hallway; missionaries clumsily navigate an uprising with barbed wire and broken glass; a boy disparages memorized scripture, facedown on the asphalt, as he fails to fend off his bully. From Kentucky to Florida to Haiti, these seemingly disparate lives are woven together within a series of nested repetitions, enacting the struggle to remain physically and spiritually alive throughout the untamable turbulence of their worlds. In a masterful blend of fiction, autobiography, and surrealism, Kyle Minor shows us that the space between fearlessness and terror is often very small. Long before Praying Drunk reaches its plaintive, pitch-perfect end, Minor establishes himself again and again as one of the most talented younger writers in America.
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Kyle Minor
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Career
Born and raised in Florida, Minor lived in Ohio and Kentucky before settling in Indiana. Minor has taught creative writing and literature at various schools, including The Ohio State University, the University of Toledo, Capital University, and Gotham Writers Workshop. He is currently an assistant professor of English and creative writing at Indiana University School of Liberal Arts at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. His debut collection of short fiction, In the Devil"s Territory, which was described as being about how "personal secrets always exact a terrible price" in a review at the Boston Phoenix, included the novella A Day Meant to Do Less, which was chosen by George Pelecanos for Houghton Mifflin"s Best American Mystery Stories 2008 anthology.
His stories and essays also appear in literary journals including Esquire, Southern Review, Gettysburg Review, and Gulf Coast, and he writes a biweekly column for Salon.com.
His second collection of short fiction, Praying Drunk, was called an "often dazzling, emotional, funny, captivating puzzle" by Publishers Weekly. In January 2015, it was awarded The Story Prize Spotlight Award, which honors a short story collection worthy of additional attention.
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He studied writing at The Ohio State University, where he was a three-time honoree in The Atlantic Monthly Student Writing Awards and a winner of the 2012 Iowa Review Prize for Short Fiction and Random House"s Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers contest, and at the Iowa Writers" Workshop, where he reported on the 2012 United States presidential election for Esquire.
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- BY Minor, Kyle ( Author ) { Praying Drunk: Stories, Questions By Minor, Kyle ( Author ) Feb - 04- 2014 ( Paperback ) }
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Praying Drunk
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The Story Prize
The Story Prize is an annual book award established in 2004 that honors the author of an outstanding collection of short fiction with a $20,000 cash award.The Story Prize is an annual book award established in 2004 that honors the author of an outstanding collection of short fiction with a $20,000 cash award.