"As a teacher, I thought I only had time for a very short form. I loved teaching the short story and always thought it would be so wonderful - though for me impossible - to write a satisfying short ...

In Jared Lemus’s robust, melancholy debut short story collection Guatemalan Rhapsody, the narrator of the story “Heart Sleeves” is in a representative predicament: going nowhere fast. He’s stuck, ...

Are you trying to get back into reading? Looking for something easy to dip into during your lunch breaks, or in between dips in the pool while on vacation? What could be better than a book where each ...

Zach Williams started his career as a high-school and middle-school English teacher. But when he became a new parent, all the anxieties and joys of having a kid renewed his urgency to do something ...

Many readers know Neil Gaiman for his novels (American Gods, Stardust, Coraline) and comics (The Sandman), which are, admittedly, all brilliant and well worth your time. (Go read them, is that what ...