The Man Behind the Metal Detector
NEW YORK TIMES: "Every morning, I stand behind the metal detectors, searching bags as students enter the school."
ADAM
STUMACHER
ADAM STUMACHER
Adam Stumacher is an author and educator whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, Narrative, The Kenyon Review, and others, was anthologized in Best New American Voices, and won a Nelson Algren Award and the Raymond Carver Short Story Award. Adam has taught at MIT, The Harvard Kennedy School, The University of Wisconsin, Grub Street, and elsewhere. An award-winning longtime educator in urban schools, his commentaries on education appear regularly on NPR.
NEW YORK TIMES: "Every morning, I stand behind the metal detectors, searching bags as students enter the school."
NARRATIVE MAGAZINE: "Anh-Thuy Nguyen, who recently bleached her hair and told everybody she wanted to be..."
GRANTA: "Before coming to the West Bank, Nathan worked for years as piano tuner, which left him with a nervous tic."
KENYON REVIEW: "Last week there was a brawl out by the bus stop and some kid got stabbed seven times."
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