Local Author Celebration Series: Kevin Clouther
Please be our guest for our next local author talk featuring Kevin Clouther, author of "Maximum Speed" and "We Were Flying to Chicago."
Where: Carriage House at Joslyn Castle & Gardens (3902 Davenport Street, Omaha, NE 68131)
When: Wednesday, September 18 from 6pm-7pm (doors open at 5:30pm)
What: A FREE all ages event.
About the Author:
Kevin Clouther is the author of the story collections "Maximum Speed" and "We Were Flying to Chicago." His stories have appeared in Confrontation, Gettysburg Review, Gulf Coast, Joyland, and Ruminate, among other journals. He holds degrees from the University of Virginia and Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is the recipient of the Richard Yates Fiction Award and Gell Residency Award. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha Writer’s Workshop, where he directs the MFA in Writing He lives with his wife and two children in Omaha.
About his book "Maximum Speed":
Like Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad and Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Kevin Clouther’s Maximum Speed moves across time and point of view to dramatize youth’s aftershocks. The unifying presence in three characters’ lives is Billy, an apprentice drug dealer in South Florida. His improbable appearance twenty years after his death reconnects Nick, Andrea, and Jim with each other and with the shared secret of their past.
