Teaser #2: Author Signing with Michael Nye
by Jessica Rogen on 02/17/14
Boulevard is headed to AWP in less than two weeks and, as such, we’re delighted to present the second teaser for our author signing, featuring fiction-writer Michael Nye, who will be autographing his collection Strategies Against Extinction Friday from 11-12 at theBoulevard table (P21!).
The only Michael Nye story I had read was “A Fully Imagined World,” which we published in our Fall 2012 issue, until I picked up his collection sometime last year and devoured it whole. Michael’s stories effectively function on the discomforting juxtaposition between cool description and inner headspace. They’re often very funny in a tragically day-to-day way, a bit like a Laurie Colwin tale. His characters, with varying degrees of obliviousness, move through the real world as I know it, and Michael has a deft way of writing their struggles that prompted me to such a continual feeling of consanguinity that I read most of the collection in the cold sweat of Déjà vu. Will they each find epiphany/revolution—however cold a comfort that might be—come pick up a copy for yourself and find out.
Or as Queen's Ferry Press puts it:
"Michael Nye’s debut short-story collection is nine stories about people who find themselves at difficult turning points in their lives—times when they are faced with hard choices, broken promises, and the fear of self-destruction. These diverse characters include a war veteran turned radio broadcaster, a film projectionist, a second-generation comic book store owner, a vascular surgeon at one of Boston’s premier hospitals, an ex-baseball player turned financial advisor. The stories in this collection are startling and realistic evocations of the lives of memorable characters, told with rich observation, energy, compassion, and grace."
Michael Nye is the author of Strategies Against Extinction, (Queen’s Ferry Press, 2012), and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Boulevard, Cincinnati Review, Crab Orchard Review,Kenyon Review, New South, Sou’wester, and South Dakota Review, among many others. His work has been a finalist for the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in fiction. He lives in the Midwest and works as the managing editor of The Missouri Review.
A friendly reminder about all our author signings:
Joseph D. Haske – Thursday, 2-3 PM
Michael Nye – Friday, 11-12 AM
Peter Grandbois – Friday, 2-3 PM
Phong Nguyen – Saturday, 1-2 PM
