Danielle Evans is widely acclaimed for her blisteringly smart voice and x-ray insights into complex human relationships. Danielle Valore Evans. But I didn’t seek them out. For a lot of the characters there’s that moment when they consider the decision, consider the possibility of a different course of action, and move forward anyway. Danielle Evans: I don’t think of most of the stories in the collection in terms of impulsivity, because of that moment of hesitation you describe. With The Office of Historical Corrections, Evans zooms in on particular moments and relationships in her characters’ lives in a way that allows them to speak to larger issues of race, culture, and history. Boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider.” By this time I’ve already forgotten about the whole Father’s Day connection, and am only wondering if this college is on Earth or Mars. I’ve always been a novel reader. I liked short stories, I would read them occasionally in magazines or in a thrifted copy of the Best American Short Stories 1999 I bought a few years back. Shorts - "Boys Go To Jupiter" by Danielle Evans. Retail jobs are under relentless threat from Amazon and the like; Wendy’s and its peers have been testing out touch-screen ordering, and it’s not hard to imagine any warm meals prepared by humans soon falling into the artisanal category; and computerization has … Amidst accusations of racially-charged aggression, Claire painfully revisits but refuses to foster a sense of responsibility for a teenage tragedy she was the catalyst of. Stay in the adolescent darkness with Danielle Evans’s unsettling short story in The Sewanee Review, “Boys Go to Jupiter.” Meet my strong … Danielle Evans is widely acclaimed for her blisteringly smart voice and x-ray insights into complex human relationships. Work in Print: Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self. Then I started trying to write them. East Grand Traverse Bay, Michigan. In Danielle Evans’s “Boys Go to Jupiter,” Claire, a white college girl, faces the consequences of a thoughtless photo taken on a lazy summer afternoon. In “Boys Go to Jupiter,” a white college student tries to reinvent herself after a photo of her in a Confederate-flag bikini goes viral. “I am looking for the artful way any given story is conveyed,” writes Roxane Gay in her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2018, “but I also love when a story has a powerful mess Publications.
Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year’s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction.