Everyone wants to write a book. Arlette Rosen knows that and earns her living helping strangers with their book ideas: books about Derrida and dieting, personal histories and Armenian detectives, book
In Human Oddities, by newcomer Noria Jablonski, we meet Siamese twins, newly separated, drag queens, and seedy hospital orderlies. A corpse washed up on the beach, cancer diagnoses, and tummy tuck ope
After six years away, living in Paris with her disgraced and dying mother, a runaway from a disastrous marriage to her father, twenty-two-year-old Anastasia King returns to her grandmother's house onl
In her author’s note to the book, Marion Winik writes that in Mexico on the Day of the Dead, people build altars to their loved ones . . . they go to the cemetery and stay all night, pray
