Author Archives: Kyle Minor

Some welcome news today: My story “Seven Stories About Kenel of Koulev-Ville” was selected for  Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013, edited by Dave Eggers. The anthology will be published this October, by Harcourt Houghton Mifflin.  

The new issue of The Iowa Review is out today, and it includes a new story of mine, titled “Seven Stories about Kenel of Koulèv-Ville ,” a story about catastrophe, power, friendship, love, and human kindness. You can find a copy on the newsstand of most independent bookstores, Barnes & Noble stores, and Books-A-Millions. You can also receiveContinue reading “New Story in the Iowa Review”

The second (generous, happy-making) blurb came in today for Praying Drunk, which will be published in 2014 by Sarabande. Daniel Handler wrote it. He’s the author of several books I admire, including Adverbs and The Basic Eight. He also wrote A Series of Unfortunate Events, under the pen name Lemony Snicket. “Praying Drunk gets the whole thing down: the cosmic muckContinue reading “First Two Blurbs for Praying Drunk”

Perhaps I haven’t attained the stature to give advice to other writers, but here is what I would say to a younger version of myself, if I could: 1. Swing for the fences every time. 2. If there is a thing you want to get paid to do, but no one would think of payingContinue reading “Advice to My Younger Self”

My story “Glossolalia” appears in Forty Stories: New Writing from Harper Perennial, an ebook anthology edited by Cal Morgan. Free Kindle/Nook/SonyReader editions are available at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and Indiebound.org. It’s also available in PDF, at Fifty-Two Stories Other contributors include Ben Greenman, Jess Walter, Blake Butler, Elizabeth Crane, and Roxane Gay. Download away!

Some good news today: My story “Seven Stories About Kenel of Koulev-Ville” won the 2012 Iowa Review Prize for Short Fiction. It will be published in the December 2012 issue of the Iowa Review.

I’ve officially signed with Katherine Fausset, at the Curtis Brown Agency. She’ll be representing The Sexual Lives of Missionaries to publishers far and wide this fall. I’m in good company, too: Katherine also represents Laura van den Berg, Chad Simpson, and Benjamin Percy. Curtis Brown also represents S.E. Hinton, Po Bronson, and David Lodge, andContinue reading “Good News”

I wrote an essay for the Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Flash Nonfiction, edited by Dinty Moore, which will hit bookstore shelves this fall. Other contributors include Jenny Boully, Lee Martin, Sue William Silverman, Robin Hemley, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Bret Lott, Brenda Miller, Philip Graham, Lia Purpura, Nicole Walker, Patrick Madden, and Ira Sukrungruang.

I’ve posted selections from three years’ worth of my writer’s notebook (click here to see them) — 50,000 words of interviews, links, mini-essays, thoughts about the craft and the art of literature-making. I’ve had an ongoing need to continue my education as a reader and a writer, and this is how I’ve been doing it, day byContinue reading “Sketchbook”