© Alice Neale. Courtesy of Ned Beauman
London-born Ned Beauman is the author of four novels, each of them published to critical acclaim. Released in 2010,
Boxer, Beetle, its protagonist a hapless Londoner with an unfortunate medical condition that lends him the smell of rotten fish, won
The Guardian First Book Award, and its successor,
The Teleportation Accident, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2012.
Glow, published in 2014, updates the thriller for a new generation, its characters spread out over several continents but converging on a dentist’s office not far from Charing Cross. Published in 2017, his fourth novel,
Madness Is Better Than Defeat, posits two competing expeditions to a Maya temple complex in Central America, one bent on dismantling a pyramid and sending it to New York. Beauman’s fascination for faux historical events that take improbable turns into the absurd have yielded some of the best novels in English in recent years. He also writes for
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University-of-southern-california
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick is a collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that reflect African American folk culture. Brought together for the first time in one volume, the book includes eight of Hurston’s lost Harlem stories, which were found in forgotten periodicals and archives. These stories challenge conceptions of Hurston as an author of rural fiction and include gems that flash with her biting, satirical humor, as well as more serious tales reflective of the cultural currents of Hurston’s world. All are timeless classics that enrich our understanding and appreciation of this exceptional writer’s voice and her contributions to America’s literary traditions.
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