Overview

America is broken. You don't need a fistful of statistics to know this. Visit any city, and evidence of our shattered social compact will present itself. From Appalachia to the Rust Belt and down to rural Texas, the gap between the wealthiest and the poorest stretches to unimaginable chasms. Whether the cause of this inequality is systemic injustice, the entrenchment of racism in our culture, the long war on drugs, or immigration policies, it endangers not only the American Dream but our very lives. In Tales of Two Americas, some of the literary world's most exciting writers look beyond numbers and wages to convey what it feels like to live in this divided nation. Their extraordinarily powerful stories, essays, and poems demonstrate how boundaries break down when experiences are shared, and that in sharing our stories we can help to alleviate a suffering that touches so many people.

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The prose throughout is top quality, and readers drawn by the famous writers involved will also enjoy discovering authors previously unknown to them.-- Publishers Weekly Masterful and affecting stories, essays, and poems by thirty-six writers profoundly attuned to the sources and implications of social rupture. These are sharply inquisitive and provocative works. -- Booklist (starred review)

"The prose throughout is top quality, and readers drawn by the famous writers involved will also enjoy discovering authors previously unknown to them.-- ""Publishers Weekly"" ""Masterful and affecting stories, essays, and poems by thirty-six writers profoundly attuned to the sources and implications of social rupture. These are sharply inquisitive and provocative works."" -- ""Booklist (starred review)"""

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John Freeman is the editor of Freeman's, a literary biannual of new writing, and executive editor of Lit Hub. His books include How to Read a Novelist and The Tyranny of E-mail, as well as Tales of Two Cities, an anthology of new writing about inequality in New York City today. His work is translated into more than twenty languages, and has appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, and the New York Times. John Freeman is the editor of Freeman's, a literary biannual of new writing, and executive editor of Lit Hub. His books include How to Read a Novelist and The Tyranny of E-mail, as well as Tales of Two Cities, an anthology of new writing about inequality in New York City today. His work is translated into more than twenty languages, and has appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, and the New York Times. Teri Schnaubelt is a Chicago-based stage, on-camera, and voice actor as well as oil painter and photographer. An Earphones Award-winning narrator, she has voiced over a hundred books for New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors, in addition to helping independent authors get their stories heard. Corey M. Snow is a full-time audiobook narrator and voice talent from the great Pacific Northwest, working from his home studio in Olympia, Washington. In his life before becoming a narrator he has been a typesetter, a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division, a software developer, and much more. He has recorded numerous audiobooks, including the DeChance Chronicles by David Niall Wilson, Crescent Lake by David Sakmyster, and the riveting Black Hearts by Time magazine editor Jim Frederick.

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