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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
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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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