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Dennis McFarland

Dennis McFarland is the author of several novels, most recently, Nostalgia. His short stories have appeared in such publications as the Scholar, The New Yorker, and Best American Short Stories.

Darkspur

by Dennis McFarland | Monday, March 06, 2017

The Preacher’s Wife

by Dennis McFarland | Friday, September 01, 2006

Start Off Dead

by Dennis McFarland | Monday, January 06, 2014

Stateside

by Dennis McFarland | Friday, March 01, 2013

Handsome Boy 

by Dennis McFarland | Friday, December 06, 2013

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THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

School Survival

by Anne P. Beatty

As L.A. teachers prepare to go on strike, we’re revisiting an essay by Anne P. Beatty about her time teaching high school in South Central Los Angeles, where her homeroom class often paused for a moment of silence to mourn students who had died in drive-by shootings. Her students knew that this was not the case in wealthier school districts. “They knew that somewhere there were schools with computers that worked, just as they knew that somewhere it was safe to walk through the streets at night,” Beatty writes. “They knew it wasn’t normal for 16-year-olds to die.” But what she found shocking, her students had to learn to endure. “Apathy was involved in giving in to the violence, and there was despair over the prospect of a better future.”