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Kergan Edwards-Stout is an award-winning director and author, whose debut novel, SONGS FOR THE NEW DEPRESSION, won the 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Award in the LGBTQ category and was shortlisted in the same category for the 2011 Indie Lit Awards. His work has appeared in a number of publications, including Huffington Post, Bilerico Project, LGBTQ Nation, American Short Fiction, and the health magazine SexVibe. He has been honored by the Human Rights Campaign as a “2011 Father of the Year”, and blogs regularly at http://kerganedwards-stout.com. Currently, he is at work on a memoir, Never Turn Your Back On the Tide.


Having lost friends, co-workers, and a lover, Shane Sawick, to AIDS, I am all too acutely aware of the personal impact the disease has had on my life. Coming of age during the height of the epidemic, my experiences in HIV education and activism fundamentally shaped me, forever altering my very core. However, in the [...]

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Average rating: 4.53 · 49 ratings · 30 reviews · 2 distinct works · Similar authors
Songs for the New Depression
4.52 of 5 stars 4.52 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions
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“...flaky, crisp, layered, and multi-textured. Which was me. Sweet and sour. Soft and crisp. I discovered that these varied elements, that for so long had seemed at odds, were actually complementary.”
Kergan Edwards-Stout, Songs for the New Depression

“...I believe that God requires nothing of us. There is no entrance fee or requirement for participation. He is there already, inside each of us, if only we'd stop and listen.”
Kergan Edwards-Stout, Songs for the New Depression

“Upon reflection, I realize that your image of me right now might be a bit skewed. Actually, kind of fucked. I am neither a nihilist, inordinately depressed, nor jaded. Though I can be and have been all of the above, and fully expect to be again.”
Kergan Edwards-Stout, Songs for the New Depression

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Dustin Rhodes Howdy Kergan!
This here Texas cowboy appreciates the friendship.
Thank ya kindly partner.

Dustin Adrian Rhodes


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