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Allan Gurganus

Allan Gurganus’s novella, ‘Blessed Assurance’ was published in Granta 32. A collection of his stories, White People, was published by Faber & Faber and Alfred A. Knopf in 1991. His most recent novel is Plays Well With Others (1997).

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition padlock
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition padlock

He’s One, Too

Allan Gurganus

‘In Falls, North Carolina, in 1957, we had just one way of “coming out”. It was called getting caught.’

Fiction | Issue 46 padlock
Fiction | Issue 46 padlock

Local Man has Sex with Corpse

Allan Gurganus

‘RALEIGH–A former funeral home employee charged with having sex with a body he was transporting pleaded guilty Wednesday after a psychiatrist testified that the man had sexual problems and that the incident probably was an isolated one.’

Fiction | Issue 35 padlock
Fiction | Issue 35 padlock

The Ramada Inn at Shiloh

Allan Gurganus

‘I think Lincoln's face predicted the twentieth century.’

Fiction | Issue 32 padlock
Fiction | Issue 32 padlock

Blessed Assurance

Allan Gurganus

‘I sold funeral insurance to North Carolina black people.’

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