October 6, 2025
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David Wright Faladé, professor of creative writing in the Department of English, was recently published in The New Yorker.
His short story, “Amarillo Boulevard,” illustrates the complexities of identity as the story’s protagonist Jean returns home to Texas from Spelman College in Atlanta.
You can read the full story online or in The New Yorker magazine’s Oct. 6 print edition. You can also hear Wright Faladé read the audio version of the story, and read an interview in which he discusses the story with the magazine’s fiction editor.