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Jeffrey Colvin

JEFFREY COLVIN's reviews and essays have appeared in Rain Taxi, The Millions, and Narrative Magazine, which also published an excerpt of his novel-in-progress, Africaville. He recently became a book reviewer for the Harvard Review and received a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council residency to teach writing at a senior center in New York City.

Reeding George Zimmerman

A bad experience with the police lingers in the mind, whether the cop is friendly and professional—as many had been when they detained me numerous times over a six-month period in the early 2000s when I moved a car on street cleaning days in Harlem—or rude and unprofessional.

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The Brooklyn Rail

JUNE 2023

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