![]() He looked like an adult, like a finished version of an expensive product. The famous black writer was handsome-tall, with striking bone structure, and a real classic elegance. Coleman had watched videos of the famous black writer and had felt a nauseating secondhand embarrassment, thinking Is this how people see me? The famous black writer had built a reputation for pyrotechnic readings that sometimes included slideshows of brutalized slave bodies and sometimes involved moan-singing. The famous black writer had a kind of totally useless fame, which was to say that he was notable among a small group of people interested in highly experimental fiction that was really memoir but also a poem. They had many friends in common and had gone to the same university, though years apart. He had known the famous black writer for a few years, but only indirectly. The famous black writer was in town to give a reading, and Coleman was not sure if he would go. The following story is set in the world of academia - Brandon Taylor’s Macondo. He followed it with the short story collection Filthy Animals, published in June, 2021. ![]() “Prophets” by Brandon Taylor ( Joyland)īrandon Taylor’s Real Life was shortlisted for The Booker Prize in 2020. ![]() Starting with Kevin Barry’s “That Old Country Music” from Electric Lit to Aleksandar Hemon’s “Blind Jozef Pronek and Dead Souls” from The Baffler, I posted 276 stories in 2021. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers.
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