For the month of February, I have opted to read all works by Black authors. The following stories all come from the list put together by the editorial staff of the Chicago Review of Books. Feel free to read along!
- “Anything Could Disappear” by Danielle Evans
- “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere” by ZZ Packer
- “The Era” by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- “Suicide, Watch” by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
- “French Absolutism” by Brandon Taylor
- “What’s For Sale” by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn
- “Sunflowers” by Bryan Washington
- “Dangerous Deliveries” by Sidik Fofana
- “Williamsburg Bridge” by John Edgar Wideman
- “Biafra” by Nnedimma Okorafor
- “Bear Bear Harvest” by Venita Blackburn
- “Beg Borrow Steal” by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
- “How to Kill Gra’ Coleman and Live to Tell About It (Vauxhall, NJ, c. 1949)” by Kim Coleman Foote
- “Allentown, Saturday” by Gabriel Bump
- “Books and Roses” by Helen Oyeyemi
- “God’s Gonna Trouble the Water” by Randall Kenan
- “The City Born Great” by N.K. Jemisin
- “202 Checkmates” by Rion Amilcar Scott
- “All This Want and I Can’t Get None” by Tia Clark
- “Wet Paper Grass” by Jasmon Drain
- “Emperor of the Universe” by Kaitlyn Greenidge
- “Ark of Light” by Victor Lavelle
- “False Cognates” by Ladee Hubbard
- “What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky” Lesley Nneka Arimah
- “Milk Blood Heat” by Dantiel W. Moniz
- “Whiskey & Ribbons” by Leesa Cross-Smith
- “A Selfish Invention” by Donald Edem Quist
- “Best Features” by Roxane Gay
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