The Case of Rupert Steele (Electric Literature's Recommended Reading Book 282)

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"What a great joy and pleasure then to come across a story like Charlie Schneider’s “The Case of Rupert Steele.” Charlie has conjured a trio of voices to tell the story of Rupert Steele, a black railway porter who is accused of assaulting a passenger, dismissed from his job, and later killed via lynching in New Mexico. Rather than focusing on Rupert’s death directly, the story moves toward it at an oblique. We hear about the events leading up to the accusation from a former coworker, the woman who accused him, and the supervisor who made the decision to remove him from the train. It is a story about the difficulty of resolving the faceless dead into sharp relief, of excavating our histories when they are mired in blood and obscured by systems that perpetuate violence against our bodies." —Brandon Taylor

About the Author: Charlie Schneider has an MFA in fiction from the University of Oregon. He has received a Work-Study Scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and fellowships from the Tin House Summer Workshop and the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers.

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