The Unfree World is a project of English 295: Lighting the Page, a course at Grinnell College. The course was taught by Professor Erik Simpson, who serves as a general editor of this project, with the collaboration of Grinnell Student Christina Brewer, who was the class’s peer mentor.
Contributors to this project–credited here with permission and by the names they chose for this listing–include Maddie Birchfield, Linh Bui, Grace Clawson, Hannah Eom, Ahon Gooptu, Melissa H., Sydney Aiko Hamamoto, Anna Bell Hines, Michael Kolanowski, Griffin Mareske, Tal Rastopchin, Lukas Resch, Saiham Sharif, Liam P. Stowe, and Megan Tcheng.
All citations to Edward P. Jones’s Lost in the City come from (and cite the page numbers of) the 20th Anniversary Edition of the story collection (Amistad, 2012).
