"What a testament it is to a splendid novelist's powers to pitch-perfectly create a small-town . . . and in doing so not only illuminate the zeitgeist but some universal truths to boot. Keith Lee Morris is a writer whose books I have promised myself never to skip."— Robert Olen Butler ,
Pulitzer-winning author of A Good Scent from Strange Mountain
Keith Morris
Keith Lee Morris is the author of Travelers Rest, as well as two previous novels, The Greyhound God and The Dart League King (a Barnes & Noble Discover pick). His short stories have been published in New Stories from the South, Tin House, A Public Space, New England Review, and Southern Review, which awarded him its Eudora Welty Prize in fiction. Morris lives in South Carolina, where he is a professor of creative writing at Clemson University.Video Spotlight
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He shouldn’t have worn sneakers. That was a mistake. A shower would have helped, too. Why could he never remember that skipping a shower didn’t lend him a feeling of rebelliousness, as his mirror would like to have him think, but only made him feel slimy, insecure?…
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