Avee Chaudhuri's "Problem Women, Problem Men"

"He sat down from his oration and had another scotch whiskey. We had furnished him with a bottle of Cutty Sark, which I think put him in mind of ships, barges, indentured labor, uneven trades, doomed marriages perhaps. He spent several minutes staring at the bottle. Someone in the corner said, 'get this man some egg rolls, stat!'"

~~ from "Problem Women, Problem Men" by Avee Chaudhuri

"Paideia" by J.L. Moultrie

At Hobart, J.L. Moultrie experiences homelessness and more.

Morrison and Robbins

The novelist-in-residence at L.U.S.K. has been reading The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison and Alien vs. Predator by Michael Robbins.

rare titles

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I've been working ever since I was twelve.

"'I was eleven or twelve. I remember when the taxicab driver brought that telegram.'

"'I need details,' I said hoping to coax him into a deeper story, something better than my imagination. 'Was it a weekend? Were you coming home from school? Were you watching cartoons? Was your mother at work?'

"'I think I was at work.' He laughed. 'I've been working ever since I was twelve. I had a job changing tires.'

"'You were pretty much taking care of the family while he was gone?'

"'Yeah, my great-uncle got me a job changing tires.'"

~~ from To Float in the Space Between by Terrance Hayes

write a novel in the voice of Mark Twain's Jim

"[Saul] Bellow went on to say something I like to propose to folks put off by political poems: 'I could write a better book from Lolita's point of view.' (Oh, if only Bellow had written that book!) Write a poem from [the Black tennis star's] point of view. Write a poem, write a novel in the voice of Mark Twain's Jim. Or in the voice of one of Charles Bukowski's girlfriends."

~~ from To Float in the Space Between by Terrance Hayes