Baird Harper is best known as a writer of short stories. His fiction has appeared in publications such as Glimmer Train, Tin House, and The Chicago Tribune as well as anthologies such as New Stories from the Midwest, 40 Years of CutBank, and Best New American Voices. The recipient of the 2014 Raymond Carver Award for Short Fiction, the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award, and the James Jones Short Story Award, he also teaches creative writing.
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When Sonia, the prominent wife of a local cemetery owner, is killed in the worst accident anyone can remember, Hartley Nolan, a lifelong teetotaler, is hardly the person that police expect to find behind the wheel. After all, Hartley is something of an in... SEE MORE