This book reads like memory itself, a mixture of obviously key moments and seemingly innocuous ones that take on meaning later. With Every Minute is a Suicide, Bruce McDougall succeeds in the difficult task of putting together a series... Read More

Flashes of characters’ inner narratives reflect on human nature with exquisite prose. Matt Runkle presents a selection of fictions that are as intimate in detail as they are wide in scope and variety in The Story of How All Animals Are... Read More

Hardcore journalism meets the neighborhood gossip in this innovative collection of twelve short stories. Told secondhand and infused with a storyteller’s voice, "A Room of Rain" takes the literary tourist on gripping, tour-bus-style... Read More

Hart’s micro-fiction bursts through traditional genres, and her narratives make fun and absurd leaps in reality. “Isn’t it enough that I’m alive?” students ask their parents before being shot and eaten by school administrators... Read More

Takolander’s talent for narrating intimate tragedies across age, gender, and time reveals her as a master of the quiet and deeply personal storm. As a first book of short fiction, "The Double" is surprisingly eerie, restrained, and... Read More

Hareven’s brilliant writing is simply irresistible as she traces two sisters’ emotional journeys through recovering from a childhood trauma. In "Lies, First Person", by Gail Hareven (translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu), sisters... Read More

Gamerro navigates extreme situations of war and and crime with a practiced hand and plenty of humor. The Adventure of the Busts of Eva Perón details Ernesto Marroné’s quest to rescue his boss, Faust Tamerlán, who is kidnapped by the... Read More

Filling an important niche in historical fiction, "Texas" speaks directly to prejudices and preconceived notions still alive along the border today. The Mexico-United States border has long been a hotbed of controversy, at no time more... Read More