TY - SER KW - Pittsburgh Pirates KW - Pittsburgh Public Schools KW - Barry Bonds (1964- ) KW - Black Americans KW - Protestants AU - John Edgar Wideman AB - Microstories or flash fiction that revisit life in Pittsburgh's Homewood neighborhood and move to many other settings. “The characters and compass points range from Darfur to Manhattan, from Pittsburgh to Paris,” reads the dust jacket, “but the true coordinates these stories chart are the psychic and emotional fault lines beneath our common ground.” C1 - 2010s C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Homewood; Shadyside; Liberty Elementary School C4 - Literary; Black; Psychological CY - Raleigh, NC LA - English M3 - Short Stories N2 - Microstories or flash fiction that revisit life in Pittsburgh's Homewood neighborhood and move to many other settings. “The characters and compass points range from Darfur to Manhattan, from Pittsburgh to Paris,” reads the dust jacket, “but the true coordinates these stories chart are the psychic and emotional fault lines beneath our common ground.” PB - Lulu Press PP - Raleigh, NC PY - 2010 RN - John Edgar Wideman (1941- ), raised in Pittsburgh's Homewood and Shadyside neighborhoods, graduated from Liberty Elementary and Peabody High School. A star basketball player, he was all-Ivy League at the University of Pennsylvania before winning a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford. At the Iowa Writers' Workshop he earned a MFA. Wideman is the winner of many literary awards and a professor at Brown University. EP - 155 p. TI - Briefs: Stories for the Palm of the Mind ER -