John Edgar Wideman
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
A major literary figure tells "a searching tale of loss, recovery, and déja vu that is part memoir and what-if speculation, part polemic and exposé" (The Washington Post) about two generations of one family—civil rights martyr Emmett Till and his father, Louis—shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Emmett Till took a train from his home in Chicago to visit family in Money, Mississippi; a few...
Emmett Till took a train from his home in Chicago to visit family in Money, Mississippi; a few...
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The O. Henry Prize stories 2019 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from the thousands published in literary magazines over the previous year.
The collection includes essays by the three guest jurors on their favorite stories, observations from the winning writers on what inspired them, and a comprehensive resource list of the many magazines and journals, both large and small, that publish short fiction.