This is the first collection to appear in twenty years from one of America's best short story writers. His thirteen stories are marvelous—funny, heartbreaking, and wise by turns, and on occasion all t
The semi-autobiographical stories in this collection are populated with outsized and magnetic characters and subtly layer the specifics of the Jewish experience with the universal dilemmas of childhoo
Taking the beloved symbol of merriment out of his conventional trappings and into the world of imaginative folklore, Baum gives Santa Claus an exciting life that evokes all the charm, warmth, and fa
The invasion of the future has begun.Literary legends including Stephen Millhauser, Junot Diaz, Amiri Baraka, and Katharine Dunn have attacked the borders of the every day. Like time traveling mad-sci
Disgusted and appalled with the today’s noisy and noisome world in which all is spectacle and surface sensation, Nick flees into the solitude of the desert. But even as he manages to recover some sort
