The Dirty Blue Car: New Stories

by Fielding Dawson

12 new stories plus a 1975 classic from master stylist Fielding Dawson.

172 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2004

About the author

Fielding Dawson was an American author of short stories and novels, a painter and collagist, and a student at Black Mountain College.

Reviews

[Chris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fielding Dawson occupies the space in my reading of the only experimental writer who does so without irony or pretension. His writing, in all of the short story books I have read of his, is all over the map, but the best of his stories are about the strange transcendant nature of teaching writing in prisons. I've never read anyone else who really lives the "I have learned from my students" motto the way he does. It's inspiring in that it makes teaching something that makes one's self better as a whole, though it is often troubling and disturbing, both as a process and as a profession.