The Optics of Opportunity
The story of a literary fellowship that maybe wasn’t so strange at all
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13 min readJun 19, 2019
“Hey, nigger, nigger, nigger,” Jackson Taylor, the writing instructor, called out, pointing his finger at me from across the Chelsea loft that had been renovated into our classroom. I and 13 writers had been invited to participate in a mysterious writing fellowship funded by the Barnes & Noble founder…
