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Korby Lenkers first book features 27 stories culled from his 15 years as a solo touring indie artist. The stories are as colorful as his titles suggest-- Rats Dude, Manboy and the Mafia Table, Catlady-- and flourish under his descriptive, empathetic pen. From a romantic-encounter-turned-family-crisis, to a humorous eulogy for his recently deceased piano teacher, to an unlikely visit with a convicted felon in a California desert, he has distilled an unusual life into a few potent vignettes that you will read more than once. Up to this point in his life, Korby has been a professional singer-songwriter, traveling around by himself, playing songs for small audiences, selling CDs out of a suitcase. Occasionally there have been moments where the light shined particularly bright, but mostly its just been him and a guitar, making music in living rooms and clubs and the occasional concert hall. He has met a lot of people, most of whom leanedlike himtoward the fringe side of the social spectrum. Hes written some of them into storieshunched over a laptop in the backseat of a touring van, or in the lobby of a Best Western, or on the cracked vinyl couch of a rock clubs green room, poking a keyb
- Author
- Lenker, Korby
- Publisher
- Nashville, Tennessee: Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781681623740
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.07 / 5 (38 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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