Keith Lee Morris and Steve Almond

Start: 03/23/2010 7:00 pm

In this stunning story collection inhabited by dreams and disappointments, good intentions and small triumphs, Keith Lee Morris chronicles the lives of men lost in the liminal spaces between adolescence and adulthood. For all their flaws—as husbands, as fathers, as friends—Morris’s characters are portrayed with depth, tenderness, and humanity. Call It What You Want balances realism with the surreal, humor with sadness, and explores all the hidden places in between.

"Steve Almond had created a distinctive voice and literary persona. Pleasure-obsessed, self-deprecating, horny, hilarious, and always dedicated to parsing the messy terrain of the human heart."

Forward.com

Keith Lee Morris is an associate professor of English and creative writing at Clemson University. His short stories have been published in Tin House, A Public Space, Southern Review, Ninth Letter, StoryQuarterly, New England Review, The Sun, and the Georgia Review, among other publications. He has written three books, The Greyhound God, The Best Seats in the House, and The Dart League King. His latest work is, Call It What You Want.

Steve Almond is the author of two short story collections; My Life in Heavy Metal and The Evil B.B. Chow, the non-fiction book Candyfreak, the novel Which Brings Me to You, co-authored by Julianna Baggot, and the collection of essays Not That You Asked. His short stories have appeared in Tin House, Zoetrope, McSweeney's, Ploughshares and others, and his other work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Believer, and Boston Magazine.