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Podcast: Author2Author
Episode: Author2Author with Robert McKean
Description: Bill welcomes author Robert McKean to the show. Populating ROBERT MCKEANâS novels and stories are some five hundred characters, steelworkers and bankers, doctors and jewelers, teachers and librarians, lawyers and yardage clerks, salesmen and ballet instructorsâall residents of Ganaego, a small mill town in Western Pennsylvania. McKeanâs short story collection I'll Be Here for You: Diary of a Town was awarded first-prize in the Tartts First Fiction competition (Livingston Press). His novel The Catalog of Crooked Thoughts was awarded first-prize in the Methodist University Longleaf Press Novel Contest. The novel was also named a Finalist for the 2018 Eric Hoffer Awa...