From award-winning author T.D. Johnston comes his second collection of short stories, eighteen standalone tales which are described by author D.G. Bracey as a master class on how to deliver stories that grab you from the first page and don’t let you go until long after reading.
With Weeding for Eisenhower, his second volume of poignant, powerful, perfectly crafted stories, T.D. Johnston confirms his place in the two-hundred-year tradition of the great American short story. - John Engell, Professor Emeritus of American Literature, Film, and Creative Writing, San Jose State University
This remarkable collection cements T.D. Johnston’s status as one of America’s best short-story writers. - Martin McCaw, two-time winner of the Global Short Story Prize
The beauty of T.D. Johnston’s new collection of short stories, Weeding for Eisenhower, is this. You have no idea where Johnston is going to take you. But when you get there, you always say the same thing: Thanks. And you always do the same thing. You go back to the beginning and read it again. - Tom Sorensen, award-winning columnist, The Charlotte Observer
Light versus Dark. Good versus Evil. Truth versus Lies. Sanity versus Madness. The thin line that separates these dichotomies threads its way through these beautifully written stories of modern America, showing us time after time Johnston’s keen ability to illuminate the human condition. And if you are like me, you will come away from reading these often surprising tales with a renewed optimism that there is more that connects us than separates us. - Ray Morrison, author of In a World of Small Truths
T.D. Johnston continues his mastery of the short form in Weeding for Eisenhower. His profound, humorous, gripping work is breathtakingly current, while still paying homage to the storytelling greats. A masterful collection. - Mathieu Cailler, award-winning author of Heaven and Other Zip Codes
T.D. Johnston is a literary conjuror par excellence. Reading Weeding for Eisenhower is like stepping into virtual reality. You experience the lives of his remarkable characters not just with them, but from inside them. Their struggles, fears, loves and learnings become your own. Your heart beats with their pulse. This is storytelling at its finest. - Marjorie Brody, multiple award-winning author of Twisted
In Weeding for Eisenhower, T.D. Johnston has done nothing less than defy gravity. At the top of his game with his award-winning debut collection Friday Afternoon and Other Stories, he aims even higher in this second work, and then delivers on the challenge. In these eighteen tales, this modern master of the short form reminds us why we love the short story. - John W. MacIlroy, author of Whatever Happens, Probably Will
T.D. Johnston is not only one of the country’s foremost champions of the short story, but one of the genre’s most skilled practitioners as well. In his latest collection, Weeding for Eisenhower, we find ourselves in the company of a writer who has a sensitive finger on the pulse of the world we live in right now and its often polarized and bewildering strangeness. But Johnston’s stories go unerringly to the core of what is solid and eternal, and in doing so bring a semblance of order to our fractured reality. These stories will chill your blood, warm your heart, slap you wide awake, touch you with gentle sorrow, and make you laugh out loud. Enjoy the ride! - Douglas Campbell, winner of the Able Muse Write Prize for Fiction
