Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Zuwena Packer
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, United States or Americans, Parents and children, Blacks, Middle classes, Twenty-first century, Ethnic groups, Toleration
ZZ Packer is a young African American woman whose rise to big-city buzz and momentary media stardom began with the summer 2000 special Debut Fiction issue of The New Yorker. Accompanying her story “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere” was a full-page photograph of Packer sitting on some rough city steps beside a cracked, graffiti-covered wall. Dressed simply in black slacks and a white top, her hair in cornrows, she stares at the camera with a sullen, even angry, look. Given this projected persona, it is not surprising that reviewers of her first book of short stories, of which The...
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