Back in her San Francisco bartending days, Rachel Kushner witnessed life in a way many of us never will. One night at the Warfield, a historic music venue, the Rolling…
Still Alive
Death haunts the essays in Rachel Kushner’s The Hard Crowd
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A Great Southern Voice
Rick Bragg returns with a collection of his short works
Rick Bragg is one of the great Southern voices of our time, or any time. That much seems a statement of unassailable truth, in a moment when such things are…
The Past Rising Up
Randall Kenan’s If I Had Two Wings returns to Tims Creek
In Randall Kenan’s new story collection, If I Had Two Wings, men and women often find themselves in bewildering circumstances, caught up in twists of fate that demand a new…
A Sexy, Impressionistic Feast
Leesa Cross-Smith’s story collection makes a joyful statement
Leesa Cross-Smith’s new book of short fiction, So We Can Glow, feels like a radical act of joy. On the whole, the collection is a sexy, impressionistic feast of feminine…
The Gift of the Magis
I wanted a bike — I got a chair
“I know what Daddy’s getting you for Christmas,” my daughter said in early December last year. “It’s kind of something for the whole family.” The author with her family I…
Teaching and Unteaching—and Entertaining All the Way
For more than three decades, Patricia McKissack has been writing children’s books that bring to life the stories, and the truth, of her ancestors
As she was coming of age in Nashville in the 1950s, there were many places Patricia McKissack was not allowed to go. She remembers hotels and restaurants that forbade African…
