Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story
(on a postcard)

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Nice Things Said About Us
Sam Lipsyte:
"Michael Kimball never ceases to astonish. He is a hero of contemporary American literature."
Observer:
“Powerful and moving ... breathless”
El Mercurio:
“First, Camus showed us the human condition. Now Kimball has.”
Time Out London:
“A deep love between an ageing husband and wife is given a heartbreaking voice ... tender and poignant”
El País:
“Haunting and awesome ... beautiful and intense ... This is a novel from a great talent.”
El Placer de la Lectura:
“A monument to love”
The Glasgow Herald:
“Be warned: this book has the power to make even the most hard-hearted of readers shed a tear. ... Kimball has broken into new territory: Us is one of the most graphic depictions of illness and loss I have ever read.”
Letras Libres:
Michael Kimball "already delivers the future of the novel ... [He is] one of the authentic innovators in contemporary fiction."
Blake Butler:
“There are two books I can remember that ever made me physically cry. There were the rape scenes in Saramago’s Blindness, and there was nearly every chapter of Michael Kimball’s [Us]. While the first hurt because it was so brutal, Kimball’s was a softer kind of invocation—as I read it in a bathtub, I could not shake the feeling of being held, as if somehow the words had interlaced my skin. This is the essence of the magic Michael Kimball holds—his sentences come on so taut, so right there, and yet somehow so calming, it’s as if you are being visited by some lighted presence.”
El Razón:
“Bathed in tenderness ... touching and breathtaking ... one of the most moving, heartbreaking, and sad novels of contemporary American fiction. It is essential.”
Telegraph and Argus:
“This is the saddest book I have ever read and one of the most beautiful ... One can’t help being aware of his grief and the great love he feels for his dying wife. It will make you cry and break your heart but this is one book you must read.”

DEAR EVERYBODY in Paperback

The LIFE STORY Project
NPR's All Things Considered
Guardian Weekend Magazine
International King of Postcards

Some DEAR EVERYBODY Stuff
Dear Everybody @ Vice
Rave in The Believer
Great LA Times Review
Time Out New York Review
City Paper Profile
Indie Heartthrob
The Book Studio Video
Incredible Dogmatika Interview
Excerpts from the Suicide Letters
Dear Everybody: A Short Film

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ABOUT Me

Michael Kimball is the author of four books, including Dear Everybody (which The Believer calls “a curatorial masterpiece”) and, most recently, Us (which the Observer calls “powerful and moving … breathless”). His work has been on NPR’s All Things Considered and in Vice, as well as The Guardian, Prairie Schooner, and New York Tyrant. His books have been translated into a dozen languages—including Italian, Spanish, German, Chinese, Korean, and Greek. He is also responsible for Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story (on a postcard), a couple of documentaries, the 510 Readings, and the conceptual pseudonym Andy Devine.

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Baby Charlotte
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Chair
Deborah Ling
Effie Gross
Elizabeth Crane
Elizabeth Ellen
Gena Mohwish
Giancarlo DiTrapano
Gina Myers
Greg Santos
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Isla the Dog
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Jessica Anya Blau
Jonathan Bender
Josh Maday
Julie Riso
Karen Lillis
Kaya Larsen
Ken Baumann
Kim Chinquee
Luca Dipierro
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Matt Bell
Matthew Simmons
Meg Pokrass
Micah Ling
Michael Hemmingson
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Moose the Cat
Nate Jackson
Nick Kane
Patrick King
Phil Adams
Rachel Joy
Rahne Alexander
Red Delicious Apple
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Sammy the Dog
Samuel Ligon
Sarah Black
Sean Lovelace
Shanti Perez
Steve Caratzas
Tao Lin

Nice Things People Said About DEAR EVERYBODY
The Believer:
"a curatorial masterpiece"
The LA Times:
"funny and warm and sad and heartbreaking"
Time Out New York:
"stunning"
The Star-Democrat:
"elegantly and eloquently written ... an unforgettable book"
Gary Lutz:
“Dear Everybody confirms Kimball's reputation as one of our most supremely gifted and virtuosic renderers of the human predicament.”
Largehearted Boy:
"Dear Everybody is a cleverly constructed book that balances pathos and humor exquisitely, and proves Michael Kimball to be a master storyteller."
The Citizen:
"superb"
WYPR:
“quite a literary feat"
The Faster Times:
"Michael Kimball is a badass."
HTMLGIANT:
"Dear Everybody is one of the finest, most heartbreaking books I’ve ever read."
David McLendon:
"I know of no one ... who knows and understands every cog and flywheel and screw of the language machine to the degree of Kimball's reach."
Word Riot:
Dear Everybody is "forever embedded in my brain."
Maud Casey:
“Dear Everybody has the page-turning urgency of a mystery and the thrilling formal inventiveness of the great epistolary novels.”
HTMLGIANT:
"one of the hottest, most innovative books of the year"

More DEAR EVERYBODY Stuff
Rave in The Believer
LA Times Review
Guardian Profile
Time Out NY Review
Indie Heartthrob @ Bookslut
Sunday's Baltimore Sun
Blake Butler Review
The Book Studio Video
Citizen Dick Review
Hobart Interview
Dogmatika Interview
Elizabeth Baines Review
City Paper Profile
Word Riot Interview
Katrina Denza Review
New Pages Review
Scott Pack Review
Caroline Leavitt Interview
Bookgeeks Interview
Just Listen (Australia)
Lizzy's Literary Life Interview
Simon Appleby Review
Lucy Magazine Interview
Adrian Graham Review
Planting Words Conversation
Fictionaut Five Interview
Just William's Luck Interview
Lizzy Siddal Review
Fiona Robyn Review
Me and My Big Mouth Interview
William Rycroft Review
Examiner Interview
Tanabata Review
Writing Neuroses Interview
Keyhole Interview
Poddcast @ Apostrophe Cast
The Junction (Germany)
The Citizen (South Africa)
Book Tour Fall 2008
349 Pieces: On Writing Dear Everybody

ANDY DEVINE'S WORDS

60 WRITERS / 60 PLACES

I WILL SMASH YOU

CLICK on the trailers for I WILL SMASH YOU and 60 WRITERS / 60 PLACES

Some PEOPLE and THINGS I Like
Josh Maday
Gina Myers
Karen Lillis
Adam Robinson
Luca Dipierro
Gena Mohwish
Blake Butler
Kim Chinquee
Heather Fowler
Fondly, Sincerely
Rob Brulinski
William Walsh
Joy Leftow
Susan Sonnen
Graham Nunn
Bête de Jour
5ive:Ten Readings
New York Tyrant
Matthew DeBenedictis
Bookslut
Maud Newton
Cheryl's Gone
Shane Jones
Keyhole
Ken Baumann
Tiny Things Are Nice
Hobart
Dave Housley
Elimae

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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

Fri, Nov 18 2011 08:01

Us Named a Top Ten Indie by Book Page

Book Page has named its Top 10 Indie Picks for 2011 and Us tops the list, which also has great titles by Joshua Mohr, Alan Heathcock, Ryan Bradley, Steve Himmer, Adam Mansbach, Lavinia Ludlow, Vanessa Veselka, Franki Elliot, and Ben Tanzer. Many thanks for Lori Hettler.

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| Adam Mansbach, Alan Heathcock, Ben Tanzer, Franki Elliot, Joshua Mohr, Lavinia Ludlow, Lori Hettler, Michael Kimball, Ryan Bradley, Steve Himmer, Us, Vanessa Veselka

Tue, Apr 12 2011 11:34

Us @ The Next Best Book Club

There's a really nice early review of Us at The Next Best Book Club. The good Lori Hettler says, "Michael Kimball has blown me away with his upcoming release Us -- a beautiful, heart-wrenching novel." Plus, she pulled one of my favorite bits as an excerpt.

Preorders are open at Tyrant Books.

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| Lori Hettler, Michael Kimball, The Next Best Book Club, Tyrant Books, Us

Wed, Jun 9 2010 02:22

Interview @ The Next Best Book

The good Lori Hettler at The Next Best Book Blog asked me some questions and I did my best to answer them. We talk about Dear Everybody, the 510 Readings, Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story (on a postcard), 60 Writers/60 Places, I Will Smash You, and dog-earring books.

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Mon, May 24 2010 11:38

Dear Everybody @ The Next Best Book Club

There's a super nice review of Dear Everybody over at The Next Best Book Club. The good Lori Hettler calls Dear Everybody "a beautifully crafted collage of life"--along with all kinds of others nice things.

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| Dear Everybody, Lori Hettler, Michael Kimball, The Next Best Book Blog

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