Dale Andrew White

ReaderViews.com: "raw, in-your-face humor worthy of Comedy Central"
BookReview.com: "as refreshing as it is funny"
Midwest Book Review: "a unique assortment of stories, each as entertaining as the last"
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: "His stories combine satire, slapstick, innuendo and outright silliness. All of it is punctuated with interesting, quirky characters."
Feathered Quill Book Reviews: "White's eccentric and quirky sense of humor is evidenced throughout the book, taking the reader through twists and turns, delights and mishaps"… (mehr)

FEATHERED QUILL BOOK REVIEWS:
“'Moe Howard Died for Our Sins' is a collection of humorous short stories that are, at some points, irreverently provocative and at other times just plain guffaw-able, but always a superb display of White’s fine writing style and seriously slanted sense of humor.”
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BOOKREVIEW.COM:
“Dale Andrew White is a devious writer and his new collection, 'Moe Howard Died for Our Sins,' provides incriminating evidence of this. On the one hand, the flavor of his tales faintly evokes that decayed antebellum style of Southern literature that is both lyrically humorous and self-deprecating; the sort of thing we get in Faulkner's Sartoris or Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn... On the other hand, this not the satire of Ambrose Bierce or H. L. Mencken. It is more like the kind of in-your-face semantic slapstick that you might expect of a George Carlin or a Lenny Bruce... To open this collection is to invite trouble - and probably enjoy it.”
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MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW:
“Part-time iconoclast and two-fingered typist Dale Andrew White is a natural born storyteller with an especial flair for blending fantasy, whimsy, satire and a fevered imagination into original stories that are replete with ribald humor and reader-engaging novelty. Subtitled ‘made-to-fit tales for the maladjusted,’ this collection of short stories showcase a genuine and offbeat talent... Highly recommended reading!”… (mehr)

KIRKUS REVIEWS: "Headlined by discussions with Lonesome Dove (1985) author Larry McMurtry and Watership Down (1972) writer Richard Adams, White’s (A Florida Anthology, 2013, etc.) selection of stories contains intimate sit-downs with authors from a wide range of genres. ... The stories are most rewarding when White and the writers engage in philosophical discourse. Interviews with poet Richard Eberhart, behavioral psychologist and utopian theorist B.F. Skinner, and religious writer Chaim Potok particularly stand out as lively and deep. White often mimics the style of his subject, which keeps the writing fresh, and no story is more captivating than his interview with Calvin Hoffman, a leading voice for the theory that Christopher Marlowe was the true author behind Shakespeare’s works. Reading like a murder mystery, Hoffman’s devoted obsession with Shakespeare’s life and Marlowe’s vaguely reported death is shrouded in debate and wholly engrossing."… (mehr)

I generally don't read short stories. I read these and

was amused. The first one was Seriously by Dale

Andrew White, an excerpt from the short story

collection Return of the Dittos. It dealt with a family

that was "fun" and a son that desperately wanted to

be "normal". The second story was Lunacy

Grounded by Dale Andrew White, an excerpt from

the short story collection Moe Howard Died for Our

Sins. This one dealt with a boy that was considered

different by society and was therefore bad. These

stories are quirky but also make you think. They

are funny while also being serious. They also make

you wonder about the author and his sanity or lack

thereof. Give them a try and see what you think.… (mehr)