Jamel Brinkley

Jamel Brinkley is the author of Witness: Stories and A Lucky Man: Stories, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Raised in Brooklyn and the Bronx, he teaches at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Bartow Station

It’s a thing about being a man. To be so stingy, to deny even a sip of yourself. To deny and deny and deny until one day it all comes out as a violence, like water spewing forth from a hose. 

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