What other writers have said about “Everybody’s Gotta Eat”:

Kevin Winchester’s writing reflects a strong knowledge of all the great Southern writers and storytellers that have come before him and the tradition they’ve established, but his voice is all his own—unique, funny, heartfelt, an honest depiction of the world, his Southern world, as he sees it. His voice is one to join that long tradition of Southern writers, and rightly so.

~ Ron Rash, author of the Pulitzer nominated novel One Foot in Eden and Serena.

Kevin Winchester’s writing paints a uniquely American portrait of a people struggling to find their way in a world that seems designed to beat them. With dark humor, raw-boned honesty and pitch-perfect dialogue, Winchester captures the hard and burnt off edges of folks’ lives while illuminating our universal desire to connect and protect ourselves from others and our own true natures.
 
~Elissa Schappell, author of Use Me, Blueprints for Building Better Girls, and founding editor of Tin House Magazine.

Kevin Winchester is an extraordinary writer, one who blends a depth of historical research with a grasp for achieving real intimacy with his characters.  His work offers a pitch perfect balance of darker and lighter material, and his sense of story is both fearless and persuasive.  He is clearly a writer to read.

~Fred Leebron, Author of Out West and Six Figures

Here are Stories ruthless and beautiful and mean enough to earn a capital "s." And yet Winchester's wit and mastery of movement save us from the mire of his characters' desperation. This collection carries all the suspense and hope of those endless moments preceding our most important decisions, weighty tales of soil and earth and southern humanity that will hurt you, will punch you in the face, and then smile, reminding you of the humor necessary to survive our country. Damn good.

~Kyle Beachy, author of The Slide.

Amazon Reviews:

Let's face it, most of America (maybe even the world) sees the South as an anachronism. And sure, we've had our share of being on the wrong side of history. But the South is full of vibrant, good-hearted, sometimes misguided, but always interesting folks who can't be framed into a little box and put away on a shelf to collect dust with the other fossils. The South has a place in the modern world. And Kevin Winchester proves that by peeling back the rhetoric and giving us an inside look into Southern culture and the emotional life of Southerners.

From the ambitious and indefatigable Seldom Turnbull, to the proud but exasperated Garlen and Charlie Wrenn, and everyone in between, Winchester takes us through an entire gamut of real people, flesh and blood; Southerners whether they admit it or not, struggling to cope with an ever-changing world. This book brings out the heart of the South. And if yours is beating, you'll never see the South the same way again after reading it.