Episode #66 From Nomad to Ph.D. with Michael C. Keith

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Michael C. Keith is the author of an acclaimed memoir––The Next Better Place–a young adult novel––Life is Falling Sideways––and 20 story collections, including, Of Night and Light, Everything is Epic, Sad Boy, And Through the Trembling Air, Hoag’s Object, The Collector of Tears, If Things Were Made To Last Forever, Caricatures, The Near Enough, Bits, Specks, Crumbs, Flecks, Slow Transit, Perspective Drifts Like a Log on a River, Let Us Now Speak of Extinction, Stories in the Key of Me, Insomnia 11, Pieces of Bones and Rags, Quiet Geography, The Late Epiphany of a Low-Key Oracle, and Bodies in Recline, Euphony, The Loneliness Channel, and Pings.”

He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize several times, a PEN/O’Henry Award, a PEN/Faulkner Award, an IPPY Award and was a finalist for the National Indie Excellence Award for short fiction anthology and a finalist for the 2013 International Book Award in the “Fiction Visionary” category.

In our interview, we talked about how Michael came to be on the road with his father from the age of 8, the places he saw, the kindnesses he remembers, how he got from no school on the road to a Ph.D. and much more!

00:00 START

05:59 Drink 1: On the Road Again

08:45 Reading 1: On the Road

20:15 From years without school to a Ph.D.

24:05 Growing up Nomad: How much of the country did you see?

29:34 Drink 2: Tick of the Clock

34:10 Reading 2: Insomnia

36:34 All about insomnia, causes and cures

44:01 Tales of Larry King

44:48 Drink 3: Love and Fear

48:49 Reading 3: 11:11

51:28 Seeing the same number over and over again

54:33 Pings and the reasons for shorter fiction

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