Product Description: Calloustown, the seventh collection from master raconteur George Singleton, who’s been praised by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as the “unchallenged king of the comic Southern short story,” finds the author at the absolute top of his game as he traces the unlikely inhabitants of the titular Calloustown in all their humanity...read more

Product Description: The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to South Carolina Writers expands the range of writers included in the landmark South Carolina Encyclopedia. This guide updates the entries on writers featured in the original encyclopedia and augments that list substantially with dozens of new essays on additional authors from the late eighteenth century to the present who have contributed to the Palmetto State's distinctive literary heritage...read more

Product Description: Accomplished South Carolina storyteller George Singleton has been called "the unchallenged king of the comic southern short story" by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "a breakthrough writer you need to know" by Book magazine, and "a big-hearted evil genius who writes as if he were the love child of Alice Munro and Strom Thurman" by novelist Tony Earley...read more

Product Description: Toddlers—and drunks—bang around hitting walls, tables, chairs, the floor, and other people, trying to find their legs. Writing fiction is a similar process. Sometimes it might take a while before the story gets some balance and moves forward...read more

Product Description: Renegade artist Harp Spillman is lower than a bow-legged fire ant. Because of an unhealthy relationship with the bottle, he’s ruined his reputation as one of the South’s preeminent commissioned metal sculptors. And his desperate turn to ice sculpting nearly led to a posse of angry politicians on his trail...read more

Struggling to write his autobiography from a motel room, a professional snake handler named Novel inadvertently uncovers a decades-old town secret with potentially explosive ramifications for his neighbors. By the author of the Half-Mammals of Dixie. A first novel. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Nineteen tales by the author of The Half-Mammals of Dixie feature South Carolina protagonists in search of money, revenge, meaning, and other elusive goals, from a dermatologist who becomes obsessed with eliminating birthmarks to a father who drives on half-inflated tires to flirt with a cashier. Original. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: Verb is the ancient oral tradition and the venerable literary magazine combined into a fresh new package: the audioquarterly. The best writers in the country reading their own work--new stories and poems you won’t find anywhere else--and an innovative format with an eye-catching design all come together in this exciting quarterly series...read more

From the author of These People Are Us comes a zany new collection of short stories that captures the entertaining lives of such characters as the boy whose reputation is ruined forever after he stars in a documentary on diagnosing head lice, a self-described primitive artist who is mistaken for a faith healer, and a lovelorn father who woos his child's third-grade teacher. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

A collection of stories by the author of The Half-Mammals of Dixie seeks to bring out the eccentricities of everyday life with such tales as a man's search for a black-market sonogram to replace a taped-over real one and a town's attempt to fake being hit by a tornado. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: Step into George Singleton's world and see why he is earning a reputation as one of the funniest, wisest, and most surprising Southern writers of his generation. Playboy magazine says, "Singleton's stories are crazy mad fun." (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of short stories brings together the work of four award-winning fiction writers from South Carolina. The range of styles and subjects of these stories is as diverse as the landscape of the Palmetto State--from the offbeat humor of George Singleton's Outlaw Head and Tail, to the piercing passion of Rosa Shand's Density of Sunlight, to the sprawling strange drama of Scott Gould's Nothing Fazes the Autopilot, to the strange twists of Deno Trakas's Eugene...read more