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Barb Johnson is the author of More of This World or Maybe Another, a collection of award-winning short fiction about four outsiders whose unruly lives intersect on the back streets of New Orleans. Funny and haunting by turns, Johnson’s unforgettable characters are driven by something fragile and irresistible, a sputtering drive to love and be loved, in these “stunning stories . . . the kind that reveal, enlarge, and make living seem worth the trouble.” (Dorothy Allison)

Rider

“The truth is, the only people who want to be different from everyone else are the ones who aren’t. Being the same is a little luxury that lets you do whatever you want, to play at kissing girls, for instance, which is a thing now. I don’t touch those kinds of girls. I don’t let them touch me. Eventually, they will all go off with cute guys and do what they’re supposed to do, and I will be left behind, the wrong song playing in me all the while.” –Rider