Our reading will be six short stories by Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), most of them during the years when she lived in New York City and became prominent among the writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Our selections are set in one of two locales: in or near Hurston’s home town of Eatonville, Florida (incorporated as an independent Black municipality in 1887); or in Harlem during the period of the first Great Migration of Southern Blacks to the North in the years following the end of World War I. Their conversations feature Hurston’s characteristic reproduction of Southern Black dialect of the time, which she knew well from her own childhood and young adulthood. The six stories are “Drenched in Light” (1924), “Muttsy” (1925), “Under the Bridge” (1926), “The Book of Harlem” (1927), “The Country in the Woman” (1927), and “The Gilded Six-Bits” (1933). They are among twenty-one Hurston stories published in a volume entitled Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance (Amistad, 2020).