{"id":49713,"date":"2018-11-14T16:11:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T22:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=49713"},"modified":"2018-11-14T16:12:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T22:12:07","slug":"humorist-harrison-scott-key-will-make-an-appearance-on-thacker-mountain-radio-november-15-at-the-lyric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/humorist-harrison-scott-key-will-make-an-appearance-on-thacker-mountain-radio-november-15-at-the-lyric\/","title":{"rendered":"Humorist Harrison Scott Key Will Make an Appearance on Thacker Mountain Radio November 15 at The Lyric"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This funny and wise new memoir from Harrison Scott Key<\/strong>, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor<\/strong>, will inspire laughter and hope for anyone who\u2019s ever been possessed by a dream of what they want to be when they grow up.<\/span><\/p>\n

Little-known author Mark Twain<\/strong> once said that the two most important days in your life are the day you were born, and the day you find out why. He’s talking about dreams here, the destiny that calls every living soul to some kind of greatness. What Mr. Twain doesn’t say is: A dream is also a monster that wants to eat you. Nobody tells you this part of the American Dream\u2014until now. In this new memoir,\u00a0Congratulations Who Are You Again<\/em><\/strong>, readers join Harrison Scott Key on his outrageous journey to becoming a great American writer.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a young boy in Mississippi, Harrison possessed many special gifts, such as the ability to read and complete college applications. And yet, throughout young adulthood, he failed at many vocations, until one day, after drinking perhaps too many beers and dusting off his King James Bible, he stumbled across a passage about a lonely pelican, which burst into flame inside him. In a mad blaze of holy illumination, Harrison realized his dream: to set the world afire with the light inside him. He would write a funny book. This was his dream.<\/span><\/p>\n

With unforgettable wit and tenderness,\u00a0Congratulations Who Are You Again\u00a0<\/em>is Harrison\u2019s instructive tale of pursuing his destiny with relentless and often misguided devotion, transforming his life beyond all comprehension: He becomes a signer of autographs, a doer of interviews, a casher of checks that are “worth more money than my father had ever imagined any of us might see, this side of a drug-related felony.”<\/span><\/p>\n

On this journey, Harrison finds that as he gains the world, he stands on the precipice of losing everything that means the most: his family, his mind, his soul. Hilarious, honest, and absolutely practical,\u00a0Congratulations Who Are You Again<\/em>\u00a0is a no-holds-barred look at the life of every ambitious human creature, whether you want to write books or make music, start a business or start a revolution. This is a book for the dreamers.<\/span><\/p>\n

About the Author<\/strong><\/span>
\nHarrison Scott Key’s\u00a0<\/b>writing has been featured in\u00a0The Best American Travel Writing<\/em>, the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>,\u00a0Outside<\/em>,\u00a0Salon<\/em>,\u00a0The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>,\u00a0McSweeney\u2019s Internet Tendency<\/em>,\u00a0Southern Living<\/em>,\u00a0Reader\u2019s Digest<\/em>,\u00a0Image<\/em>,\u00a0Creative Nonfiction<\/em>,\u00a0The Mockingbird<\/em>,\u00a0The Green County Independent<\/em>,\u00a0The American Conservative<\/em>,\u00a0Brevity<\/em>,\u00a0Gulf Coast<\/em>, and\u00a0Oxford American<\/em>, where he is also a contributing editor. He teaches at SCAD in Savannah, Georgia, where he lives with his wife and three children. Harper published his first memoir,\u00a0The World\u2019s Largest Man<\/em>, which won the Thurber Prize for American Humor.\u00a0\u00a0\"The<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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