The Drue Heinz Literature Prize was established in 1980 to encourage and support the writing and reading of short fiction. Over the past twenty years judges such as Robert Penn Warren, Raymond Carver, Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, Russell Banks, Alice McDermott, and Frank Conroy have select...
God's Gym is a book of short stories by John Edgar Wideman. The stories are told from the perspective of a variety of African American men in different circumstances. All the stories were told in the stream of consciousness style. While they were well done and made the reader think, I am not of f...
—Scarborough and Wilcox, The Mesoamerican Ballgame THE SEMINAR ROOM was packed. Packed as in crowded, packed as in a packed Supreme Court, packed as in a fresh-meat inmate getting his shit packed by booty bandits. In other words, the matter being investigated, "Who Invented the Jump Shot," (a) ha...
said the minister of health to her deputy assistant, “you must fly me to one of those resort towns on the edge of the lake. Set me up in a striped tent. Send in kids who need booster shots. The mayor and I will split a bottle of cold Spanish wine; then we will blow up the last storehouse of canne...
I spent the morning of this day as I've spent most mornings this summer, trying to save a life, adding a few words, a few sentences to the long letter I'm addressing to you, Frantz Fanon, dead almost half a century before I begin writing to you, writing just about every day, outdoors when weather...
