Thaddeus Rutkowski grew up in central Pennsylvania. He is the author of eight books of prose and poetry, most recently Safe Colors, A Novel in Short Fictions. His novel Haywire won the members’ choice award from the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. He teaches at Medgar Evers College and a YMCA and received a fiction writing fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. More of his work can be found here: Fictive Dream
My father took a hardcover book from a shelf in his “library,” which occupied a poorly lit room at the front of our house. “I got this from a guy who converted a barn into a used-book store,” he said. “You should read the Russians. They taught the Poles. You should read the Russians and the Poles. When you’re finished,… Read more →