The Graybar Hotel

In this “toughly courageous, unflinching, and unapologetic” ( O, The Oprah Magazine ) debut collection, Curtis Dawkins, an MFA graduate and convicted murderer serving life without parole, “takes us inside the worlds of prison and prisoners with stories that dazzle with their humor and insight, even as they describe a harsh and barren existence” ( Publishers Weekly ). In Curtis Dawkins’s first short story collection, longlisted for the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal, he offers a window into prison li