Common Place

A Century of Short Fiction from the Many Americas

by Ishmael Reed

2008 400 pages eng

Using the yardstick that a short story is any fiction under 15,000 words, Ishmael Reed-- with the assistance of Carla Blank-- has assembled an anthology that reexamines the history of the form across a broader, more inclusive spectrum. The result is a collection that stretches the boundaries of the …