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Books containing stories by John Keene
110 Stories (2002)New York Writes After September 11edited by
Ulrich Baer
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Livonia Chow Mein (2026)Abigail Savitch-Lew"In Livonia Chow Mein, Abigail Savitch-Lew achieves a rare synthesis, producing a vivid, rich and rarely seen narrative about Brooklynites that also is a resonant social and political critique, providing new ways of seeing and understanding our past, present and future. Tackling the most difficult subjects, including race, class, gentrification, history's many complexities, and so much more, Savitch-Lew's debut novel is a marvel." The Jaguar's Roar (2025)Micheliny Verunschk"Both a spellbinding recounting and a necessary accounting, giving voice across centuries to an iconic figure silenced by history and colonialism and never fully heard from before. Utilizing every tool fiction has to offer, Verunschk, in Barbassa's lively translation, crafts an innovative, unforgettable novel." Ours (2024)Phillip B Williams"As consummate and compelling a storyteller as he is a poet, in Ours Phillip B. Williams spins a stellar tale of resistance and reconstruction that could school any US history book. Crossing rivers and decades, involving folk culture and the miraculous as a matter of course, and centering on the mysterious Saint and the secret community she creates in the midst of 19th century chattel slavery and the long battle for Black freedom, Ours speaks to our past, present and future with incomparable poetic verve." Fat Time and Other Stories (2023)Jeffery Renard Allen"Fat Time and Other Stories, Jeffery Renard Allen's impressive new collection, takes the reader on a series of journeys spanning time, place, and souls. Whether imagining a band of albinos in revolt or a life-triptych featuring Jimi Hendrix and Francis Bacon, life under a mysterious (though now quite recognizable) quarantine or passages in the lives of greats Miles Davis and Muhammad Ali, Allen's array of storytelling gifts and his skill at bringing characters to life never fail to amaze. Luxuriate in these masterful sentences, lose yourself in these Black stories, 'the shape of dreams . . . the shape of the blues . . . the shape of listening'." Meet Us by the Roaring Sea (2022)Akil Kumarasamy"Meet Us By the Roaring Sea is a genre-bending marvel. Beginning in familial loss and transforming into a complex, often thrilling journey that follows the novel's deep, compelling inner logic, Akil Kumarasamy's newest novel is an exemplar of contemporary fiction while also heralding the literature of tomorrow."
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