Brad Kessler is the recipient of a Whiting Writer’s Award and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His latest book is Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, a Short History of Herding and the Art of Making Cheese. Birds in Fall was published in 2007, and won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize that same year.
Fiction
Spring 2006
“Birds in Fall”: An Excerpt
It’s true: a few of us slept through the entire ordeal, but others sensed something wrong right away. We grew restless in our seats and felt what exactly? An uneasiness, […]
Nonfiction
Spring 2005
One Reader’s Digest: Toward a Gastronomic Theory of Literature
The first novel I ever read with gusto was Pearl Buck’s The Good Earth. I was a late reader and a slow reader and The Good Earth seemed, to a […]
Brad Kessler
A Conversation With Brad Kessler by KR fiction editor Nancy Zafris Brad Kessler’s latest novel, Birds in Fall, is hitting the bookstores as I write this. Library Journal calls it […]