Description: Breathtakingly imaginative and unapologetically original, The World Doesn't Require You announces a bold, generational talent, winner of the Pen/Robert W. Bingham Prize.
Brief description: Rion Amilcar Scott's first book, Insurrections, won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. His work has been published in the Kenyon Review, the Rumpus, PANK, and Confrontation, among others. He lives and writes in Maryland.
Review Quotes: Surreal, intertextual, and darkly comical stories... Rion Amilcar Scott writes in the tradition of George Schuyler and Ishmael Reed but with a distinctive wry, playful voice that is wholly his own. With breathtaking cruelty and devastating humor, Scott adduces the whole world in one community.--Nafissa Thompson-Spires, author of Heads of the Colored People