What Game I Invented to Finish These Books
by George Singleton
The whole reason I started writing about this character Stet Looper came through an odd alignment of blunders.
The whole reason I started writing about this character Stet Looper came through an odd alignment of blunders.
Back when I worked for The Southeast Review, we ran an online feature called, “The Cult of George Singleton,” where we asked writers to weigh-in on his larger than life personality. Katie Burgess, his old student from the Greenville Fine Arts Center, told one of my favorite stories, “One day George… hit a snake with his truck. He… put it in a duffel bag, and took it… to a faculty meeting… A few minutes into the meeting, he opened it up and started yelling, ‘Snake! Sweet Jesus!’ until he cleared the room.” Don’t try it. Unless you’re a short story […]
