A Ceremonial, Stories, 1936-1940

These twenty-four stories some traditional and realistic, others experimental and “cubist” were written when Goodman was in his late twenties, a student at the University of Chicago living the life of a romantic artist-outsider. They reveal a rebel at odds with American institutions yet also homesick for his native New York, the pleasures of family, and the comforts of a strong moral order.