Furnace Creek

Suzanne Keen serves as president of Scripps College in Claremont, California. Her most recent publication is a collection of her essays, Empathy and Reading: Affect, Impact, and the Co-Creating Reader (Routledge, 2022).

Suzanne Keen

Dickens for the Civil Rights–Era South: On Joseph Allen Boone’s “Furnace Creek”

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes

Literary Fiction

Suzanne Keen serves as president of Scripps College in Claremont, California. Her most recent publication is a collection of her essays, Empathy and Reading: Affect, Impact, and the Co-Creating Reader (Routledge, 2022).