Tuesday, December 08, 2015

A Powerful Story Collection from a Pulitzer Prize Winner

Off the Shelf
By Tom Nissley    |   Monday, December 07, 2015
It’s understandable that Edward P. Jones begins his introduction to the anniversary edition of Lost in the City by insisting—with the kind of preemptive impatience that makes it clear it’s not the first time he’s had to insist—that his characters and stories come not from his life but his imagination. Every writer of fiction has to answer that assumption, but Jones has to face it more than most, in part because his stories are so grounded in the map of his home city, Washington, D.C. READ MORE

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