Praise for Music for Hard Times

The words “master storyteller” appear in a great many hyperbolic blurbs these days, but Clint McCown is one of the few writers who genuinely deserves that description. Like Mark Twain and Flannery O’Connor, he writes stories that are consistently moving, wise, and funny—the literary equivalent of a trifecta. And also like those masters, he writes pitch-perfect prose that somehow manages to be simultaneously colloquial and lyrical. Music for Hard Times is indeed the music we need for these (or any) hard times. Buy this book!

—David Jauss

Praise for Clint McCown

With wise, often lyrical prose and an eye for striking detail, [McCown] brings his characters to life.  —Publishers Weekly

Clint McCown is a graceful storyteller.  —Louise Erdrich

A new book by Clint McCown is always reason to rejoice.  —Ann Hood

Clint McCown is an excellent writer—eerily observant and insightful, with a humorous yet always compassionate eye.  —Peter Matthiessen