Barry The Bricklayer

by Rick Hoffman, Nichol Vagrosky (Illustrator)

75 pages, Paperback

Published September 3, 2026

About the author

Rick Hoffman is the author of the novels A Long Way Down (2024), Seven-Sided Son of a Bitch (2022), and The Devils That Haunt You (2016), as well as the short story collection The Broken Places (2019) and a fully annotated edition of The Great Gatsby for students and teachers (2023). He was born in Pennsylvania, raised in Mississippi and Louisiana, and he currently lives in New York, where he teaches English and mythology at a nationally recognized Blue Ribbon high school. His fiction has appeared various print and online publications, and he was a 2017 Best of the Net nominee for his short story “Biyanî,” about a Yazidi woman fleeing genocide in Northern Iraq.
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