Pita delicious / ZZ Packer -- Albino crow / Chris Abani -- Orb weaver / Emily Raboteau -- The saving work / Tiphanie Yanique -- Dance for me / Amina Gautier -- Cell one / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- In the blink of God's eye / Edward P. Jones -- This kind of red / Helen Elaine Lee -- Novel excerpts: Dark reflections/ Samuel R. Delany -- The great Negro plot / Mat Johnson -- The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao / Junot Díaz -- Man gone down / Michael Thomas -- Young adult fiction: Excerpt from Feathers / Jacqueline Woodson -- Harlem summer / Walter Dean Myers -- Elijah of Buxton / Christopher Paul Curtis -- Up for it: a tale of the underground / L.F. Haines