The Naming of Ghosts

by Steve Mitchell

Fifteen short stories from prize-winning author Steve Mitchell, including 'Platform', 'Wave', and 'Above the Rooftop'.

Genres: Short Stories

131 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2012

About the author

Steve Mitchell is an award-winning writer and journalist, published in december magazine, Southeast Review, storySouth, Red Fez,The Tishman Review, and Contrary, among others. His novel, Cloud Diary, was published by C&R Press. His book of short stories is The Naming of Ghosts from Press 53. He is a winner of the Curt Johnson Prose Prize and the Lorian Hemingway International Short Story Prize and has been nominated a number of times for the Pushcart Prize. He has a deep belief in the primacy of doubt and an abiding conviction that great wisdom informs very bad movies. He’s co-owner of Scuppernong Books in Greensboro, NC. where he lives with his partner, writer Deonna Kelli Sayed.

Reviews

[C.J. Graves]

Wow.

The writing is so beautifully crafted by this author I had to be careful not to get swept away. But the stories, which deceptively use mundane circumstances, are rich with meaning. The vivid language allowed me to imagine myself in many of the situations. They're not stories about extraordinary individuals as much as everyday people making some extraordinary connections. And maybe that's what the overall collection is about--making a connection to each other and to the world around us.

Or maybe not. That's the fun here. Each reader will make his or her own connection. I highly recommend you read and decide for yourself.

[Lewis Garnett]

Steve Mitchell is simply lights-out, soul-driven, brilliant. A writer's writer. Like reading silk draped around a sledge. Not for the illiterate or faint of heart.

[Peter Fogtdal]

Steve Mitchell's prose is second to none. He's a poet at heart which might be why I'm not always moved as much by his stories as I would like to be. But his prose makes this collection a more than worthy read!