SHORT stories' brevity and direct, straightforward structure appeal to teens. Teachers like them because they are a wonderful way to introduce a theme or unit or to stimulate discussion or writing ...

“The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace” by Jeff Hobbs is the far-more-common version of this story. It is tragic in the classical sense, a story of the impossibility of living whole in the ...

Part memoir, part elegy, The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace is one of this fall’s best nonfiction books – the story of a young man who survived the streets of Newark, New Jersey, to ...

But Peace’s story isn’t that simple, ... The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace. A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League. Jeff Hobbs. Advertisement (Scribner, $27) ...

EASTON — Over his lifetime, William Faulkner wrote more than 19 novels and 125 short stories, not to mention 20 screenplays, a play and six collections of poetry. In Chesapeake ...