Tue, Jul 26 2011 01:03

I have a new piece called
The Life Story of L up at
Freerange Nonfiction, along with a piece by Melissa Seley. Many thanks to the good Mira Ptacin.
Fri, Jul 22 2011 08:18

There's a really nice review of
Us in Rain Taxi that says
Us is "incredibly raw and unabashedly real ... Kimball wins us over by his impressive emotional authenticity.
Us is so authentic that one might mistake it for an autobiography." You can only see it in the print version of Rain Taxi or at
Powell's Review-a-Day.
Then there's this five-question, one-minute interview at
Birdsong.
And I missed this a couple of weeks ago, but there's a really sweet and thoughtful
video review of
Us at
Momentary Melodies. Thank you, Lauren.
Mon, Jul 18 2011 09:42

My friend Jen Michalski asks me some questions about
Big Ray over at
JMWW -- for instance, how I wrote it without anybody knowing.
Wed, Jul 13 2011 08:38

I have an interview with
Stephanie Barber up at
The Faster Times. We talk about her show at the Baltimore Museum of Art, "Jhana and the Rats of James Olds or 31 Days/31 Videos," working under constraints, and how people approach art.
More interviews @ The Faster Times:
Gary Lutz,
Blake Butler,
Laura van den Berg,
Brian Evenson,
Robert Lopez,
Dylan Landis,
Padgett Powell,
Sam Lipsyte,
Dawn Raffel,
Kevin Sampsell,
Gina Frangello,
Evan Lavender-Smith,
Ken Sparling,
Matt Bell,
Ingrid Burrington,
Andy Devine, and
Jessica Anya Blau,
Deb Olin Unferth,
Blake Butler,
Justin Taylor, and
Susan Henderson.
Tue, Jul 12 2011 11:52

I'm interviewed at
Used Furniture where we talk about
Us,
Dear Everybody, sadness and reckoning, euphoria and writing, and writing as something that is rendered.
Tue, Jul 12 2011 11:42

I have an interview with
Rachel B. Glaster up at the
Charlotte Viewpoint. We talk about
Pee on Water, how her ideas become stories, and how anything can be a story.
Tue, Jul 5 2011 09:22

I'm having a pretty great year so far and I feel really grateful for it. I don't even know how to explain how grateful I feel. I'm so happy to announce that I just sold the world rights to a new novel, BIG RAY. It's the story of a son coming to terms with the sudden death of his obese father. It's told through 500 brief entries, moving back and forth between past and present, the father's death and his life, between an abusive childhood and adult understanding. BIG RAY went to Kathy Belden at Bloomsbury USA, which will publish in Fall 2012, and Michael Fishwick at Bloomsbury UK, which will publish in Winter 2013.
Fri, Jul 1 2011 10:27
Oprah says some really nice things about
Us: "The best little novel you haven't heard about,
Us ... Kimball's clear-eyed prose unlocks the most vulnerable voice ... creating an emotional link that leaves no reader untouched."
Fri, Jul 1 2011 10:17

I've always loved
Largehearted Boy and I had a lot of fun listening to everything song on my iPod to make a
playlist for
Us. There's Beck, Wilderness, Neutral Milk Hotel, Mazzy Star, The Cure, Celebration, and a cover of a Blue Oyster Cult song.
| Beck, Blue Oyster Cult, Book Notes, Celebration, Largehearted Boy, Mazzy Star, Neutral Milk Hotel, playlist, The Cure, Tyrant Books, Us, Wilderness
Wed, Jun 29 2011 11:35

I have an interview with
Justin Taylor up at
The Faster Times. We talk about
The Gospel of Anarchy, the great stuff he does with third-person close narration, and writing sex scenes, among other things.
More interviews @ The Faster Times:
Gary Lutz,
Blake Butler,
Laura van den Berg,
Brian Evenson,
Robert Lopez,
Dylan Landis,
Padgett Powell,
Sam Lipsyte,
Dawn Raffel,
Kevin Sampsell,
Gina Frangello,
Evan Lavender-Smith,
Ken Sparling,
Matt Bell,
Ingrid Burrington,
Andy Devine, and
Jessica Anya Blau,
Deb Olin Unferth,
Blake Butler, and
Susan Henderson.
Tue, Jun 28 2011 12:13

The wonderful
Caroline Leavitt asked me some
smart questions about
Us and I did my best to
answer them. We talk about the origins for the book, the moment-to-moment structure, and making sentences do many things.
Sat, Jun 25 2011 01:42

The wonderful
Amber Sparks wrote a moving and personal
review of
Us for
Big Other that says, in part: "I’ve read review after review of this amazing book that turns back on itself and becomes a sort of self-examination by the reviewer. I think that says more about the brilliance of Kimball’s novel than it does about us readers ... Michael Kimball’s wonderful book ... it fastened itself around my neck as I read, got in my eyes, swam in my bloodstream, infected my brain. The book made it happen.
Us became a story about my grandfather, about my husband, about the people I love and the loss I fear."