To the untrained eye, Sam Shelstad may look a lot like a Value Village cashier who shares an apartment with his Uncle Herman and has just emerged from a failed relationship with a woman forty years his senior whom he met at his mother's...

An extremely successful author named Kloster and an unnamed, up-andcoming writer have one thing in common--they've both employed a typist named Luciana. Now Luciana claims Kloster is killing off her family, and she desperately needs...

Longbourn: When a young writer accepts a job at a university in the remote English countryside, it's meant to be a fresh start, away from the bustle of London and the scene of a violent assault she is desperate to forget. But...

A collection of three novellas from New York Times bestselling writer Jim Harrison, in which an aging Montana-based writer copes with an unplanned litter of piglets, a woman attempts to have a child late in life, and Detective Sunderson...

A Spin-Off of 'Stranded' On the day he and Roman Capanelli were to be married, Malik Stevens wakes up in a small room with very little light. Time must be passing, because a door opens from time to time and food is left for him—that’s...

A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy. Vintage Atwood creativity, intelligence, and humor: think Alias Grace. Margaret Atwood turns to short fiction for the first time since her...

Lo scrittore Logan Brandish è più che soddisfatto della vita che conduce nel paesino dove vive insieme alla sua migliore amica, al suo gatto e al suo ragazzo. Almeno fino a quando non incontra il suo nuovo editor, il bellissimo Brock...

Wise-cracking Wiley Cantrell is loud and roaringly outrageous—and he needs to be to keep his deeply religious neighbors and family in the Deep South at bay. A failed writer on food stamps, Wiley works a minimum wage job and barely...

Presents stories of people's culinary habits and the dishes created by them, named after them or cherished by them, discussing the dishes associated with more than seventy kings, chefs, novelists, generals, and courtesans.