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Reality Orientation

…Bronx. An employee-owned model for home care workers, CHCA serves clients throughout the Bronx. The women who tend to apply for CHCA jobs have already faced profound challenges. Many have…

Strange Things Happening

…in a sort of death-or-glory charge against some vultures. That happens in Larry D. Thacker’s new story collection, Working It Off in Labor County. A lot happens in this fictional

Nobody Untended

…opens with “The Wish for a Good Young Country Doctor,” in which a wry academic reflects on his pivotal encounter with an antique shop owner during his grad school study…

Power in the Word

…the first to tell you that these successful young people simply live into what most young people can achieve. “Tons of youth have that capability,” says Smith. “When they’re identified…

You’re Gonna Talk about This Chicken

…The Ringer. Restaurants in New York, Detroit, Denver, and even Australia advertise that they fry their chicken Nashville-style. Upward of ten thousand people attend the annual Hot Chicken Festival, held…

The Bard of Memphis

Camel’s sexual prowess can grow tiring, yet the novel’s love story — between Camel and Allen, a “witchy and willowy” sculptor — is surprisingly moving. The book’s voice is conversational

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