The essays in The Story About the Story feature lively discussions of great literature by some of the most prominent authors of all time, with over thirty essays written by authors as diverse as Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf to Cynthia Ozick and Salman Rushdie.
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“The problem with this book: too many irresistible things.”
— James Salter

What magical message is a giant snowflake trying to bring to a little general, and to the world? In a time of violent military solutions to global problems, this illustrated allegory by leading poet Matthea Harvey has a powerful resonance. MORE >

“Utterly charming—I love this little general and the strange and wondrous and precise world he lives in.”
—Aimee Bender, author of Willful Creatures

In the late seventies, at the age of eighteen and with a seventh-grade education, Dolly Freed wrote Possum Living about the five years she and her father lived off the land on a half-acre lot outside of Philadelphia. MORE >

“Freed presents herself not as a utopian, but as a subversive survivor in a corrupted world, without ideological illusions...a classic of American cantankerousness...”
— from the introduction by David Gates

Vibrant, sexy, and quite possibly crazy, Bernice is determined to reclaim the child she gave up for adoption five years ago. MORE >

“Hot Springs is a road trip layered with desire and mistakes and the impossibility of keeping a secret from rising through the years.”
—Ron Carlson, author of The Signal