Nafissa Thompson-Spires' first book, the short story collection The Heads of Colored People, is short-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize (a prize for a book that follows Burn's "bold footsteps" and "enters history and dares to interrogate the past"). But why write about painful topics? The author: "I think the goal of a writer should […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM on August 4, 2019