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Professor Adam Johnson, recently the recipient of the National Book Award in fiction, weighs in on the power of the short story, the need for humor and the next generation of writers.

 

In her fiction and in the classroom, Stanford English Professor Elizabeth Tallent is interested in how our relationships change who we are.

Tallent dissects many kinds of relationships in her new short story collection Mendocino Fire…

Adam Johnson, Pulitzer Prize winner for The Orphan Master's Son, won the 2015 National Book Award for Fiction with Fortune Smiles: Stories.