What Ken Is Reading

The Story Teller

Some thoughts on the short fiction of Frank O’Connor How has your quarantine reading been going? Are you tackling those big doorstops that you’ve always meant to get to or is your attention span only focused enough for micro short fiction? Have you preferred to lose yourself in escapist fiction, bend your mind with the…

Forward and Forewords

I just finished Zora Neale Hurston’s recently published collection of stories,Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stickwith an introduction by Hurston scholar, Genevieve West. As is my habit, I read the stories first and then the introduction after (more on that practice later). A number of the stories in this collection were recently rediscovered…


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