More Zora Neale Hurston

Naomi Jackson at The Washington Post:

Sixty years after Zora Neale Hurston’s death in relative obscurity, a new collection of short fiction by the legendary African American author and anthropologist has arrived. For readers who are more familiar with Hurston’s novels, the collection “Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick” is a revelation not just in its celebration of Hurston’s lesser-known efforts as a writer of short stories but also in the subjects and settings that it takes on. No longer can Hurston be considered a bard exclusively of the American South, as these narratives are set both in the rural South and in the Northeast, notably in Harlem.