Eliot Fintushel lives alone in a working-class neighborhood north of San Francisco, “where my little daughter likes to visit and write and drum and paint goddesses between the rafters of the back porch.” Besides writing novels and short stories...
Of her charming new tale the author says, “ ‘The Stubbornest Broad on Earth’ is the first story I’ve written that doesn’t include my mom as a character—that’s her mom and the farm she grew up on—and I think they’d both have liked...
Walter Jon Williams lives in rural New Mexico, a fact that “compels me to perpetual war with mosquito and tumbleweed, and to lengthy disquisitions on the merits and failings of my tractor, the name of which is Beam.” One of the author’s most...
Once in a while on Vernon Street, that blind alley of tired sin and lost hopes, someone reaches for the moon.
Like Kerrigan, the stevedore, the old-young man with the strength of three and the secret dreams of a life away from the hell of Vernon...
You think you’ve got problems?
Well, how would you like to get a letter from your ex-wife’s lawyer threatening a lawsuit over a measly few months’ alimony? And then be fired from your job as editor of Ronald Rabbit’s Magazine for Boys...
Lucan Savidge was virtually a stranger to Kara when she married him. It was a step she never would have taken had she not been distraught with unhappiness over the end of her love affair with the sweetheart of her youth — but the step was taken,...
A helicopter crash off the coast of Ireland sends unexpected ripples through the international community in this intricate new thriller from the author of Winterland and Limitless (now a major motion picture).
Susie Monaghan was on the cusp of...