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What a great craftsman is this writer! I love his economy, his way of getting into a story so breathtakingly fast. His dialogue is whip-smart but never beggars belief. And tremendously entertaining. His poor Latinx and black Houston residents are rarely themselves upbeat, though life forces many to be rock-hard realists. He wrote these stories, still in his 20s. His background? An interview revealed how staggeringly