Kardos launches new mystery novel with April 4 reading at MSU
Contact: Sasha Steinberg
STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擜 faculty member in 草莓视频鈥檚 Department of English is celebrating the launch of his new mystery novel with a Wednesday [April 4] public reading.
Free to all, Michael Kardos鈥檚 presentation of 鈥淏luff鈥 takes place at 7:30 p.m. in Colvard Student Union鈥檚 third-floor Fowlkes Auditorium.
Hailed by Literary Hub as one of this year鈥檚 most anticipated crime, mystery and thriller titles, 鈥淏luff鈥 will be released April 3 by Mysterious Press. Independent literary publisher Grove Atlantic also praised Kardos鈥檚 book for taking the reader 鈥渄eep inside the fraught and fascinating world of a modern magician who becomes obsessed with magic鈥檚 dark twin鈥攖he underworld of the card cheat.鈥
Signed copies of 鈥淏luff鈥 are available for pre-order at The Book Mart and Caf茅 in Starkville.
Originally from the Jersey Shore, Kardos is in his 11th year as an associate professor of English and co-director of MSU鈥檚 creative writing program. He is the Pushcart Prize-winning author of聽鈥淭he Three-Day Affair,鈥 an Esquire Best Book of 2012, as well as the novel 鈥淏efore He Finds Her.鈥 His story collection 鈥淥ne Last Good Time鈥 is a winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for fiction. For more biographical information, visit .
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