My Father, Dancing

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My Father, Dancing (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

Bliss Broyard, daughter of the late literary critic Anatole Broyard, began her writing career as her father lay dying of cancer. A friend of the elder Broyard repaid an old debt, and the younger Broyard used the money to enroll in a creative writing class at Harvard Extension School. Out of this class came the title story in the collection, My Father, Dancing. Her stories have appeared in journals such as Ploughshares and Grand Street, as well as in The Pushcart Anthology and Best American Short Stories 1998. Bliss Broyard’s reminiscence of her...

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