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Meet Kevin Kling
Club Book Meetings with Kevin Kling
Wednesday, August 18, 7 PMStillwater Library, 224 3rd Street North, Stillwater
Thursday, August 26, 7 PM
Maplewood Library, 3025 Southlawn Drive, Maplewood
Kevin Kling is a storyteller, playwright, and regular contributor to NPR’s All Things Considered. His plays have been seen at the Guthrie Theater, Second Stage, Seattle Rep, the Goodman Theatre, the Spoleto Festival, and the HBO Comedy Arts Festival. Best known for hilarious, often tender stories, Kevin has released a number of compact disc collections of his stories. Kevin Kling's first book, The Dog Says How, brought readers into his wonderful world of the skewed and significant mundane. His second book, Holiday Inn, is a romp through a year of holidays and spent weeks on local and national best-seller lists last year.
What do the critics say?
"Kevin Kling's stories are not merely delightful. They are surprising, wise and redemptive. He is one of our great national treasures."– Krista Tippett, public radio host and founder of Speaking of Faith
"Kling has an enviable gift for storytelling, a sense of humor rooted equally in pain and whimsy...and an uncanny ability to transform intensely personal memories, especially those of family life, into something instantly recognizable and, at the same time, strangely exalted." – Chicago Sun Times
In Kling’s universe, “the mundane becomes magical, the fantastic becomes accessible and through it all his profound sense of curiosity about the world transforms the everyday to the timeless” - Queen Anne News
"His compelling stories can be just the jolt you need while waiting in traffic."- Minnesota Public Radio