NEWS

• Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story (on a postcard) profiled in The Guardian

• Review of Dear Everybody in The LA Times
"funny and warm and sad and heartbreaking"

• Time Out New York - Fall Books Preview
"Missive Impossible: Michael Kimball Reinvents the Suicide Note"
Profile & Review by Michael Miller, Books Editor, TONY

• Listen to Michael read at Apostrophe Cast
"In this intimate epistolary novel, a mentally ill weather man radiates crystalline awareness and luminous delusion while his family and others who knew him try to make sense of his tragic life. Both gloomy and amusing, Kimball's flurry of short short stories remind us of the necessity of communicating and the daunting difficulty of truly connecting."

• Interview with Michael in Lucy Magazine

• Review in Bookgeeks
"very affecting, warm" and "wry and funny and sweet"

• Free signed copy of Dear Everybody at Bookgeeks!

• Michael named "International King of Postcards" at HTMLGIANT
"The scope of the thing is just kind of flabbergasting: Kimball as a filter for all these people’s years. I can’t imagine anyone else capable of such an undertaking."

• Dear Everybody is "one of the hottest, most innovative books of the year"

• Review in The Junction
5 stars (out of 5): "beautifully heartbreaking" and "a genuine discovery"

• Interview in Hobart
"Dear Everybody is about a weatherman who commits suicide, and it is heart-achingly good."

• Review in The Rundown
one of their recommended "grim, gripping books for fall"

• Review of Dear Everybody in The Citizen
"Kimball does a superb job"

• Michael's Word reading a TIme Out New York "Critic's Pick"
"Kimball’s book, Dear Everybody, is a truly moving and often hilarious epistolary novel"

• Review and Profile in City Paper
"Human Destiny Starkly Illuminated"

• Michael's KGB reading a NY Magazine "Editors' Recommendation"

• Dear Everybody takes "The Page 99 Test"

• Radio Interview on City Pulse on the Air

• Review and Profile in City Pulse
Kimball "scores a hit"

• Review of Dear Everybody in JMWW
"Kimball has written a book of beauty."

• Review of Dear Everybody in Baltimore Magazine
"Lightning has struck again with this Baltimorean's book."

• Michael's Lit Crawl reading a TIme Out New York "Critic's Pick"

• Michael reads from Dear Everybody on WYPR's The Signal

• Michael is an Indie Heartthrob!
John Zuarino interviews Michael for Bookslut's Indie Heartthrob Series

• Interview in Word Riot
Josh Maday and Michael talk a lot about Dear Everybody, but also about Faulkner, Beckett, and Andre the Giant

• Interview in the Sunday edition of The Baltimore Sun
Dave Rosenthal, the Managing Editor, interviews Michael in the print edition and on their books blog, Read Street

• Featured Author at Keyhole Magazine
Includes a review of Dear Everybody, an interview with Michael (a podcast and transcript), a conversation between Michael and Karen Lillis about "Form and Feeling," and an excerpt from Dear Everybody

• Playlist for Dear Everybody at Largehearted Boy's Book Notes
An author creates and discusses a music playlist that is in some way relevant to their recently published book. Largehearted Boy's David Gutowski says: "Dear Everybody is a cleverly constructed book that balances pathos and humor exquisitely, and proves Michael Kimball to be a master storyteller."

• Review of Dear Everybody in New Pages
"an addictive read"

• Review of Dear Everybody and Interview in Shooting Stars Mag

• Review of Dear Everybody on WYPR
“quite a literary feat … the character of Jonathon Bender is stripped down to his emotional core.”

• Travel Profile in The Examiner
Rafael Alvarez (one of the writers who made The Wire great) writes a profile in the Sunday edition of The Examiner. It's about the cross-country trip Michael took to revise the first draft of The Way the Family Got Away.

• The Urbanite Magazine #51 (September 2008)
An Interview with Michael that covers a lot of ground -- everything from his first novel to Dear Everybody to what he eats for breakfast

• An early review of Dear Everybody in the Greenpoint Gazette
"inventive and often extremely funny, but it will also break your heart"

• “One of the best reads ever”
R., Hey Josh

• “A masterly written work of art”
Ane Steenkamp, Life After School

• BooksQuarterly
"Quirky, and idiosyncratic, this is a very amusing novel that is oddly endearing, and conceals a warm heart beneath its wit."