Kevin Stewart, a Princeton, West Virginia, native, will appear at Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library on Tuesday, April 1st at noon.The author will discuss his debut collection of stories, The Way Things Always Happen Here. The winner of state literary arts fellowships from West Virginia and Louisiana, Stewart was awarded the 1999 Texas Review Novella Prize for Margot. His work has appeared in numerous literary journals. Stewart is a professor of English and creative writing at Potomac State College, a branch campus of West Virginia University, and lives in Cumberland, Md.
THE WAY THINGS ALWAYS HAPPEN HERE is published by Vandalia Press, WVU Press's literary imprint.
Fellow West Virginian Ann Pancake claims, “Reading this taut and true debut is like driving a two-lane blacktop wedged between mountain and creek: the honest spare language under you; the gritty surprises around every turn; and the steady keen insights into both the horrors and the loveliness of contemporary Appalachian and Ozark hill country."
Chuck Kinder, also a state native, boasts, "These stories of hard realities and painfully won wisdom are absolutely jam-packed with those simmering, guarded secrets and dark desires we all share."
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