![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And then closing “Special Topics in Loneliness Studies,” a fully-realized novella in which an unhinged professor no longer employed at the university teaches classes unbeknownst to the school’s higher-ups. There’s also the tale of the ruthless PhD candidate, whose dissertation about a childhood game, “one of the very first things our ancestors did to spark the Great Insurrection,” ignites mayhem in the neighboring, once-segregated town of Port Yooga. In the short story collection The World Doesn’t Require You ( Liveright), author Rion Amilcar Scott returns to fictional Cross River, Md., established in the mid-nineteenth century by the leaders of “the country’s only successful slave revolt.” We meet a struggling street musician who ends up in jail for robbery and happens to be the son of God. His work has appeared in the Kenyon Review, the Rumpus, PANK, and Confrontation, among other publications. Rion Amilcar Scott‘s first book, Insurrections, published in 2016, won the PEN/Robert W. ![]()
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