Fire Year (Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction) Rachel Runya Katz curated from both canonical and

curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe

a group of drag pioneers found work in a small number of Lower East Side clubs

If Baru had absolute power over the Imperial Republic

In this stunning portrait of young love

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Fire Year (Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction) Rachel Runya Katz curated from both canonical andJason K. Friedman investigates art, sexuality, love, and religion in seven unconventional and engrossing short stories. A gay man attends his high school reunion in Savannah, where he's pursued by the now married former football star. An awkward teenager grapples with notions of God and girls at his bar mitzvah. A curator's assistant struggles to understand a five hundred year old Italian painter's body of work, until his boyfriend (whom he's