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Jim Schutze was born in 1946, spent his childhood in Ann Arbor, Michigan and attended high school at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, after which he was an automobile assembly-line worker in Detroit for six years. He is retired from a decades-long career as a newspaper columnist writing about local politics in Dallas, Texas.Schutze's book on race relations in Dallas, The Accommodation, was pulled from the presses by a local publisher and suppressed in 1986. Re-published 35 years later in the wake of the George Floyd murder, it was selected for a citywide reading program in Dallas.
""Pontiac evokes the voyeuristic psychological styles of Richard Yates, Evan S Connell and Fleur Jaeggy in its unsentimental dissection. Schutze writes in minimalistic prose, capturing emotional detail with a journalistic eye. What warmth exists stands in stark relief, a reminder of its precious rarity. Through Woodrow’s memories, the juxtaposition of empathy and cruelty conjure full and nuanced character studies, rendering Pontiac a beautiful, if at times difficult, telling of a young man’s formative and privileged school days."" —Financial Times Weekend
