Joshua Furst

Joshua Furst’s novel The Sabotage Café won the 2008 Grub Street Fiction Prize and was named a best book of the year by the Chicago Tribune, the Rocky Mountain News and the Philadelphia City Paper. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed book of stories, Short People. He is a founding member of the Kristiania Writers’ Collective and he lives in New York City where he teaches at Columbia University’s School of the Arts.

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Sleeps a Man

By Joshua Furst

Outside the Edifício Copan sleeps a man. On the steps of a church across from Praça Princesa Isabel, sleeps a man. In a folding chair in the dusty median along