The Gold Rush is over, and San Francisco teems with entrepreneurs of all stripes—shady and otherwise. Set in 1851, after the height of the Gold Rush, Ken Salter’s novel on French emigrants portrays entrepreneurialism‎ in San... Read More

An entertaining roast of “News Performance” in eighteenth-century London, this novel paints a vivid cultural melange of celebrity, misfortune, comedy, and moral bankruptcy. Leeds Merriweather is a gifted patterer whose livelihood... Read More

Barlow’s stories traverse such deep, psychological ground that they dredge up existential despair—in all the good ways. Welcome to the Goat Rodeo, by Tom Barlow, is a collection of more than a dozen highly inventive short stories.... Read More

These stories are mystifying, mesmerizing, smart, and seductive. This smallish-looking collection might appear to be of little consequence—the entire book is only about 130 pages—but don’t be fooled. Ethel Rohan’s thirty short... Read More

Inspired by surrealist paintings, these short stories are filled with allegory, as well as detail that adds layer to the original work of art. In "Domestic Disturbances", Peter Grandbois crafts a series of stories that describe strange... Read More

Sharing the seemingly ordinary setting of the Midwest, these short stories turn simple and normal into weird, melancholy, and wonderful. Christopher Merkner has a deeply weird sensibility, and it makes his short fiction a pleasure to... Read More

Bewilderment, frustration, and despair keep the men in these stories on edge with only brief moments of hope to move them forward. Male protagonists in crisis comprise the majority of heartrending short stories in Jacob White’s debut... Read More

A hearty dose of Hispanic and Native American cultural history enthrallingly pairs with a fast-paced action adventure. "Huber Hill and the Golden Staff of Cibola" is the third and final installment in B. K. Bostick’s Huber Hill series.... Read More