Fire Year (Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction) Rachel Runya Katz and art of the Gulf’s

and art of the Gulf’s coastal communities

and—most heartbreaking of all—her sister

a group of drag pioneers found work in a small number of Lower East Side clubs

the epicenter of Berlin's thriving queer community

Fire Year (Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction) Rachel Runya Katz and art of the Gulf’sJason K. Friedman investigates art, sexuality, love, and religion in seven unconventional and engrossing short stories. A gay man attends his high school reunion in Savannah, where he's pursued by the now married former football star. An awkward teenager grapples with notions of God and girls at his bar mitzvah. A curator's assistant struggles to understand a five hundred year old Italian painter's body of work, until his boyfriend (whom he's