The Korean Woman By Helena Rho From issue 22.2 of Fourth Genre It is a Saturday in March, but snow flurries swirl as my daughter and I step out of her ballet school. She asks to go to Sam Bok for lunch. Again. I am reluctant to go to the small Korean grocery …
We’re thrilled to announce the results of the 2014 Fourth Genre Steinberg Essay Contest, for which memoirist and essayist Robert Root was judge. The winning essay is Dave Zoby’s “My Brother Arrives in Kansas.” Root chose Beth Richards’ “Fight” as the runner-up from among the many, many fine entries we received. Both will be published in Issue …
Contest judge Scott Russell Sanders chose Patricia Park’s essay, “How to Run a Supermarket,” as the winner of the 9th Annual Fourth Genre Steinberg Essay Contest: “What begins as a wry how-to manual on running a supermarket opens into a study in immigrant-family dynamics, a sketch of social change in a Brooklyn neighborhood, a lament about …
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