Publication - "Kind of Blue" by Christopher Chambers

Wisconsin Writers Association member Christopher Chambers' latest collection of short fiction, Kind of Blue, will be published November 17th by Cornerstone Press. The stories in Kind of Blue juke and jive in an unpredictable voice-driven romp. Set in rural Wisconsin, Minneapolis, Duluth, Milwaukee, Detroit, New Orleans, Houston, and South Florida, these are stories that start and stop and surprise, swerving all over the road. These are stories of wanderlust and music, loss and misdirection, disasters large and small. With the sound and rhythm of language driving each tale, Christopher Chambers gives voice to the working- and middle-class worlds of the American Midwest and the South. Cornerstone Press/Fiction/November 2022 ISBN 979-8-9861447-2-6/US $21.95 Trade Paper/5.5 x 8.5/220 pages.

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Advance praise for Kind of Blue:

• Skip the latest humdrum bestseller, and instead, do yourself a favor and buy Chris Chambers' gritty, compassionate, and wise story collection, Kind of Blue. I finished it feeling as if the man had left little pieces of his soul on every page, and I swear to God I lost count of the number of sentences I wish I had written. —Donald Ray Pollock, author of The Devil All the Time and The Heavenly Table 
• In this world of dreamers and drunks, loners and longing, the hopeful and the haggard, Chambers accomplishes what only the best writers can; he makes every character feel both universal and unique, each setting both a vacation and a return home. —M.O. Walsh, New York Times bestselling author of My Sunshine Away and The Big Door Prize