James Gallant was the winner of 2019 Schaffner Press Prize for music-in literature for his story collection, La Leona, and Other Guitar Stories, published in 2020. Fortnightly Review (UK) published in 2018 in its Odd Volumes series a collection of his essays and short fiction, Verisimilitudes: Essays and Approximations. (He has been an online columnist for FR since 2015.) His first novel, The Big Bust at Tyrone’s Rooming House: a Novel of Atlanta, was published by Grace Paley’s small press, Glad Day Books.
“If God can make cataracts, men can certainly jump over them.”
How stern a moral may be drawn from the story of poor Sam Patch! Was the leaper of cataracts more mad or foolish than other men who throw away life, or misspend it in pursuit of empty fame, and seldom so triumphantly as he? – Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1835 The fad of jumping off or over […]
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