Michael Graves

April 22, 2016

It gives us great pleasure to announce Michael Graves as the guest on episode 054: The Little Prince Who Could!
Join us as we discuss His two published works – Dirty One and Parade, the nature of reviews, queer characters in literature, and femme shaming in the gay community.

You can buy Michael’s work here:

• Parade (Amazon)
• Dirty One (Amazon)

Follow Michael on your favorite social site:

• Michael Graves’ Website
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Pinterest

Michael is a strong supporter of Stamp Out Hunger. Please consider leaving food in a bag beside your mailbox on Saturday, May 14.  https://www.nalc.org/community-service/food-drive

Bio:
Michael Graves is the author of Dirty One, a collection of short stories. This book was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist and an American Library Association Honoree. His fiction and poetry has been featured in numerous literary publications, including Post Road, Pank, Velvet Mafia and Chelsea Station Magazine. Michael’s short work has also been featured in several anthologies, such as Cool Thing, The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered and Eclectica Magazine’s Best Fiction, Volume One.

This past fall, Michael released his debut Novel, Parade. Bill Biss of Edge Boston says, “Michael Graves has a keen eye of the farce and facts of life. Parade is a page-turner of surprise that holds the attention and a skillfully crafted novel to be savored for its uniqueness.” Writer, Michael Carroll says, “Parade is one jigger Capote’s Answered Prayers, a jigger of Tennessee Williams’s story ‘Two on a Party,’ and a generous pour of Michael Graves’s tenderly transgressive yet never abrasive tonic of satire and sweetness, all of it going down bracingly, not bitter. It is a story of callow youth contrasted with the tough and ultimately ruefully true choices that adulthood tries to force us into. In the author’s hands the narrative of rite of passage and religious hypocrisy goes down unsettlingly, which is the mark of the mixer’s skillful hand.”