Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story
(on a postcard)

Tue, Feb 26 2013 04:03

It's a Book!


Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story (on a postcard) started five years ago at a performance arts festival. Between then and now, I wrote over 300 postcard life stories, condensing over 10,000 years of life. Now it's a book. You can get it directly from Mud Luscious or from Amazon. Unfortunately, I couldn't publish everybody's postcard life story in the book or it would have come in around 700 pages. So the book is a selection from the project. Here's the Table of Contents: #45 Adam Robinson, #46 Karen Lillis, #52 Josh Maday, #49 Red Delicious Apple, #66 Blake Butler, #67 G, #70 Elizabeth Ellen, #75 Moose the Cat, #76 Deborah Ling, #91 Kathryn Jachowski, #98 Chair, #100 Jonathon Bender, #101 Elizabeth Crane, #102 Shanti Perez, #103 Rachel Joy, #111 Aaron Goolsby, #114 Sammy the Dog, #117 Baby C, #118 Nate Jackson, #125 J, #129 Matt Bell, #130 El Duque the Cat, #131 Tao Lin, #133 Rahne Alexander, #137 Rhode Island Red, #141 Steve Katz, #149 Christopher Douglas Bowles, #158 Patrick King, #161 L, #166 Beowulf the Cat, #167 Ken Baumann, #170 T-Shirt, #176 Cyndy Taylor, #184 Stephanie Barber, #188 R, #195 Kaya Larsen, #197 A. Jarrell Hayes, #199 Luca Dipierro, #200 Grendel the Cat, #209 Julie Riso, #210 F, #221 Effie Gross, #228 Nick Kane, #240 Monte Riek, #242 N, #249 Umbrella Cover, #255 Andy Devine, #263 Edgar Allan Poe, #265 Abby the Horse, #267 Michael Kimball, #280 Brin-Jonathan Butler, #282 Robin Black, #288 Stephen Graham Jones, #290 Catherine Lacey, #302 John Quincy Adams, #304 Shannon Sullivan, #307 Soap.
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| Adam Robinson, Andy Devine, Blake Butler, Brin-Jonathan Butler, Edgar Allan Poe, Elizabeth Ellen, John Quincy Adams, Ken Baumann, Matt Bell, Mud Luscious Press, Rahne Alexander, Robin Black, Stephen Graham Jones
Sun, Feb 24 2013 12:17

Dear Everybody: eBook


Dear Everybody was never available as an ebook until now. Thank you, Bloomsbury, for the re-issue.
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| Bloomsbury, Dear Everybody, ebook, Michael Kimball
Sun, Feb 24 2013 12:14

The Way the Family Got Away: eBook


The Way the Family Got Away has been out-of-print for years, but Bloomsbury just re-issued it as an ebook.
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| Bloomsbury, ebook, first novel, Michael Kimball, The Way the Family Got Away
Mon, Nov 26 2012 09:54

BIG RAY in The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, Reader's Digest, Time Out Chicago

I feel so lucky that BIG RAY has received so many great reviews:

The Wall Street Journal: “astonishingly moving … to mesmerizing effect. … Big Ray is an appalling tale told with anger, dark humor and surprising tenderness.”

The Boston Globe: “Distilled, intense … Fear and revulsion mingle with a kind of helpless love.”

Reader's Digest: “This plainspoken novel about a man coming to terms with his abusive father’s death sneaks up on you--and is unlike anything else you’ve read.”

Time Out Chicago: “Together, the fragments form a surprisingly enthralling portrait of an abusive father … a spellbinding and unflinching meditation on forgiveness, a novel that secures Kimball’s reputation as a literary innovator.”
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| Big Ray, Bloomsbury, Michael Kimball, Reader's Digest, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, Time Out Chicago
Thu, Sep 27 2012 08:32

BIG RAY in The New York Times


I never expected any of my books to get covered at The New York Times, but there's a wonderful little review of BIG RAY there that says, in part: "Big Ray is a disgusting man and a great character. He’s dead at the start of the novel, and it’s impossible not to wish him deader. ... Mr. Kimball is not one to flinch, and this portrayal is the better for it."
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| Big Ray, flinching, Michael Kimball, New York Times
Thu, Sep 27 2012 08:02

Big Ray (the man and the book)



Jessica Anya Blau asked me some great questions about BIG RAY at the The Nervous Breakdown. We talk about the real man, the book, and why I don't forgive my father.
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| Big Ray, forgiveness, Jessica Anya Blau, Michael Kimball, The Nervous Breakdown
Wed, Sep 26 2012 11:03

Huffington Post: The Underrepresentation of Overweight Characters

I wrote a piece about obesity in literature because the Huffington Post asked me too and because I just published a novel about a super obese father, BIG RAY. I grew up with an obese father and this was long before people were overweight like they are today. People weren't used to seeing people that big back then, so it was embarrassing to have a dad as big as mine was. The other kids made fun of him and they made fun of me because I was his son. I was flawed by my association to my father.
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| Big Ray, Huffington Post, Michael Kimball, obesity, overweight characters
Wed, Sep 19 2012 01:03

Michael Kimball's Enormous Death-Eye


Blake Butler asked me some great questions about BIG RAY and I tried to answer them. The interview is up at Vice. Plus, Blake says this: "Somehow [BIG RAY] manages to be simultaneously Kimball’s most brutal and heartfelt and blackly hilarious book yet."
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| Big Ray, Blake Butler, interview, Vice
Thu, Sep 13 2012 08:27

BIG RAY @ KGB Lit Mag


There's a super thoughtful review of BIG RAY from Ian F. King at the KGB Bar Lit Magazine, which says, in part: "BIG RAY's power is unquestionable."
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| Big Ray, Ian F. King, KGB, KGB Bar Lit Magazine
Mon, Sep 10 2012 01:04

BIG RAY is Book of the Week at Oprah.com


Thanks to Andrew Keating for the nice interview over at Cobalt Review.



And Big Ray is Book of the Week at Oprah.com. Oprah calls the novel "gorgeous." That's all I ever wanted.
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| Big Ray, Cobalt Review, Michael Kimball, Oprah, Oprah.com
Thu, Aug 30 2012 11:15

The Next Best Book Club




The good Lori Hettler says all kinds of nice things about Big Ray and gives the novel five stars over at The Next Best Book Club.
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| Big Ray, Lori Hettler, Michael Kimball, The Next Best Book Club
Thu, Aug 23 2012 05:27

Publishers Weekly

There's a nice review of Big Ray in Publishers Weekly. It says, in part: "The book reads like a memoir, the entirely believable product of a son grappling with the death and life of his father. The narrator talks frankly of his estrangement and efforts to connect, the abuse he suffered and his mixed feelings; the obituary, he notes, listed those who preceded Ray in death and those who survived him. 'I’m one of the people who survived.'”
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| Big Ray, Michael Kimball, Publishers Weekly
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