Robert M. Coates's "The Hour After Westerly":  A "road not taken" — or was it?
Thursday, January 7, 2021 - 18:30 The writings of Robert M. Coates are unknown to the average reader these days. The last time I taught from a high school anthology of literature that contained one of his stories was in 1977 — a harrowing tale about a middle-aged married couple harassed by a gang of teenage thugs. In my years since, as an adjunct professor teaching college English courses, I have never seen an anthology that featured any of Coates’s work. A few years back, his “Hour After Westerly” could be accessed online and I occasionally assigned it to my students before it disapp...
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