Sweat / Fort Pierce, Florida | Zora Neale Hurston / Lisa Cupolo

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NOVEMBER 24, 2026
PAPERBACK (TÊTE-BÊCHE BOOK) | 4 x 6 | 32 + 32 PAGES | $16.00
978-1-954992-45-0
FICTION | CHAPBOOK | SHORT STORIES

Zora Neale Hurston’s Florida: A Literary Double Feature

In this reversible tête‑bêche volume, Zora Neale Hurston’s iconic story Sweat meets Lisa Cupolo’s contemporary response Fort Pierce, Florida, creating a dialogue across nearly a century of American storytelling. Hurston’s tale of endurance, danger, and spiritual reckoning is set against Cupolo’s portrait of a woman navigating the heat, labor, and emotional fault lines of Florida. Together, the two stories illuminate how women survive what bears down on them—violence, work, weather, and the men who underestimate their strength.
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Lisa Cupolo is the author of Have Mercy on Us (Regal House). Her work has appeared in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, Narrative, The Idaho Review, and many others.

Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) was a world-renowned writer and anthropologist. Her novels, short stories, and plays often depicted African American life in the South.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2026
PAPERBACK (TÊTE-BÊCHE BOOK) | 4 x 6 | 32 + 32 PAGES | $16.00
978-1-954992-45-0
FICTION | CHAPBOOK | SHORT STORIES

Zora Neale Hurston’s Florida: A Literary Double Feature

In this reversible tête‑bêche volume, Zora Neale Hurston’s iconic story Sweat meets Lisa Cupolo’s contemporary response Fort Pierce, Florida, creating a dialogue across nearly a century of American storytelling. Hurston’s tale of endurance, danger, and spiritual reckoning is set against Cupolo’s portrait of a woman navigating the heat, labor, and emotional fault lines of Florida. Together, the two stories illuminate how women survive what bears down on them—violence, work, weather, and the men who underestimate their strength.
_______________________________________________________________________________
Lisa Cupolo is the author of Have Mercy on Us (Regal House). Her work has appeared in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, Narrative, The Idaho Review, and many others.

Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) was a world-renowned writer and anthropologist. Her novels, short stories, and plays often depicted African American life in the South.