This Companion offers students and scholars a comprehensive introduction to the development and the diversity of the American short story as a literary form from its origins in the eighteenth century ...

The late, great, American novelist, Cormac McCarthy wrote 12 books over his long career and each one has reason to be ...

Harvard University's Houghton Library, a rare book and manuscript depository, has inherited nearly 170 boxes of John Updike's papers, including rejected short stories, personal letters and revised ...

There is something special about works I can read in full on a rainy Sunday afternoon or in the lamplight hours between ...

Anita Felicelli’s stories are masterfully unsettling ... As the wave crests, she reflects on what seems the essential ...