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John Edgar Wideman

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The Woman-Dream I Suffered

From Slaveroad, which will be published this month by Scribner. Lucy Gantt Sheppard brings the glass teapot into a room too full of furniture to breathe. A woman not small,…

by John Edgar Wideman,

Colored Angel Levine

The story will be published in the collection Look For Me and I’ll Be Gone next month by Scribner. Dedicated to Bernard Malamud. A colored angel named Levine said to…

by John Edgar Wideman,

Maps and Ledgers

My first year teaching at the university my father killed a man. I’m ashamed to say I don’t remember the man’s name, though I recall the man a good buddy…

by John Edgar Wideman,

JB & FD

(1) To need his glasses and be struck by an awareness that they are not at hand, an ordinary enough circumstance for Frederick Douglass, except sometimes it’s accompanied by a…

by John Edgar Wideman,

Williamsburg Bridge

To be absolutely certain I rode the F train from my relatively quiet Lower East Side neighborhood to 34th Street and set myself adrift in the crowds around Penn Station…

by John Edgar Wideman,

Making Amends

By John Edgar Wideman. Wideman is a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine.

by John Edgar Wideman,

Always raining somewhere, said Jim Johnson

by John Edgar Wideman,

Fatheralong

by John Edgar Wideman,

Passing on

by John Edgar Wideman,

Breath

by John Edgar Wideman,

Trouble

by John Edgar Wideman,

Writing

by John Edgar Wideman,

Haiku

by John Edgar Wideman,

Paris morning

by John Edgar Wideman,

Party

by John Edgar Wideman,

Northstar

by John Edgar Wideman,

Message

by John Edgar Wideman,

Automatic

by John Edgar Wideman,

Giblets

by John Edgar Wideman,

Home from college

by John Edgar Wideman,

War stories

by John Edgar Wideman,

Fat liver

by John Edgar Wideman,

AT&T

by John Edgar Wideman,

Microstories

by John Edgar Wideman,

Thirteen

by John Edgar Wideman,

Divorce

by John Edgar Wideman,

Rain

by John Edgar Wideman,

My Fanon project

by John Edgar Wideman,

Wolf whistle

by John Edgar Wideman,

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence

by John Edgar Wideman,

Whose war

The color of terror

by John Edgar Wideman,

All Stories Are True

by John Edgar Wideman,

King

by John Edgar Wideman,

Debug