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2018 PEN America Literary Award Winner-Los Angeles
Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes chronicles ordinary people achieving vivid extrasensory perception while under extreme pain. The stories tumble into a universe of the jaded and the hopeful, in which men and women burdened with unwieldy and undesirable superhuman abilities are nonetheless resilient in subtle and startling ways. Venita Blackburn's characters hurl themselves toward the inevitable fates they might rather wish away. Their stories play with magic without the sparkle, glaring at the internal machinations of the human spirit. Fragile symbols for things such as race, sexuality, and love are lifted, decorated, and exposed to scrutiny and awe like so many ruins of our imagination. Through it all Blackburn's characters stumble along currents of language both thoughtful and hilarious.
Author: Venita Blackburn
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 09/01/2017
Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.39d
ISBN: 9781496201867
Review Citation(s):
Foreword 08/26/2017
About the Author
Venita Blackburn is an assistant professor of creative writing at California State University, Fresno. Her works have appeared or are forthcoming in the newyorker.com, Harpers, Ploughshares, McSweeney's, the Paris Review, and other venues. She is founder of the literary nonprofit Live, Write (livewriteworkshop.com), which provides free creative writing workshops for communities of color. Blackburn's second collection of stories, How to Wrestle a Girl, will be published in the fall of 2021.
Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes chronicles ordinary people achieving vivid extrasensory perception while under extreme pain. The stories tumble into a universe of the jaded and the hopeful, in which men and women burdened with unwieldy and undesirable superhuman abilities are nonetheless resilient in subtle and startling ways. Venita Blackburn's characters hurl themselves toward the inevitable fates they might rather wish away. Their stories play with magic without the sparkle, glaring at the internal machinations of the human spirit. Fragile symbols for things such as race, sexuality, and love are lifted, decorated, and exposed to scrutiny and awe like so many ruins of our imagination. Through it all Blackburn's characters stumble along currents of language both thoughtful and hilarious.
Author: Venita Blackburn
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 09/01/2017
Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.39d
ISBN: 9781496201867
Review Citation(s):
Foreword 08/26/2017
About the Author
Venita Blackburn is an assistant professor of creative writing at California State University, Fresno. Her works have appeared or are forthcoming in the newyorker.com, Harpers, Ploughshares, McSweeney's, the Paris Review, and other venues. She is founder of the literary nonprofit Live, Write (livewriteworkshop.com), which provides free creative writing workshops for communities of color. Blackburn's second collection of stories, How to Wrestle a Girl, will be published in the fall of 2021.
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