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  2.Research the theoretical viewpoints of the philosophers mentioned in “The Cynic”: Plato, Socrates, and Diogenes.

  3.Read—or, if possible, watch!—one of the plays in August Wilson’s famed Pittsburgh Cycle. Consider Fences or The Piano Lesson.

  About the Author

  © LYNETTE HUFFMAN-JOHNSON

  CHARLES JOHNSON is a novelist, essayist, literary scholar, philosopher, cartoonist, screenwriter, and professor emeritus at the University of Washington in Seattle. A MacArthur fellow, his fiction includes Dr. King’s Refrigerator, Dreamer, Faith and the Good Thing, and Middle Passage, for which he won the National Book Award. In 2002 he received the Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Seattle.

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  ALSO BY CHARLES JOHNSON

  FICTION

  Dr. King’s Refrigerator and Other Bedtime Stories

  Soulcatcher and Other Stories

  Dreamer

  Middle Passage

  The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

  Oxherding Tale

  Faith and the Good Thing

  NONFICTION

  The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling

  The Words and Wisdom of Charles Johnson

  Taming the Ox: Buddhist Stories and Reflections of Politics, Race, Culture and Spiritual Practice

  Passing the Three Gates: Interviews with Charles Johnson (edited by Jim McWilliams)

  Turning the Wheel: Essays on Buddhism and Writing

  King: The Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (with Bob Adelman)

  I Call Myself an Artist: Writings by and about Charles Johnson (edited by Rudolph Byrd)

  Africans in America: America’s Journey through Slavery (with Patricia Smith)

  Black Men Speaking (with John McCluskey, Jr.)

  PHILOSOPHY

  Philosophy: An Innovative Introduction: Fictive Narrative, Primary Texts, and Responsive Writing (with Michael Boylan)

  Being and Race: Black Writing Since 1970

  DRAWINGS

  Half-Past Nation Time

  Black Humor

  CHILDREN’S FICTION

  The Adventures of Emery Jones, Boy Science Wonder: The Hard Problem (with Elisheba Johnson)

  The Adventures of Emery Jones, Boy Science Wonder: Bending Time (with Elisheba Johnson)

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  Names: Johnson, Charles, 1948– author. Title: Night hawks : stories / Charles Johnson. Description: New York : Scribner, 2018. Identifiers: LCCN 2017061759| ISBN 9781501184383 (hardback) | ISBN 9781501184390 (tp) Subjects: | BISAC: FICTION / Short Stories (single author). | FICTION / African American / General. | FICTION / General. Classification: LCC PS3560.O3735 A6 2018 | DDC 813/.54—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017061759

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