With cello lines that cast a ""haunting, primordial arc"" (New York Times), Ashley Bathgate channels Australian composer Kate Moore's vivid and lyrical themes of travel, love, sadness and beauty on Stories for Ocean Shells. In the true sense of a...

In these acrid and poignant stories, Hughes depicted black people colliding--sometimes humorously, more often tragically--with whites in the 1920s and...

Thirteen hilarious, moving, and beautifully brutal stories by David Gordon, the award-winning author of Mystery Girl and The Serialist.In these funny, surprising, and touching stories, Gordon gets at the big stuff—art and religion, literature...