Jason Devlin’s family is falling to pieces. Clarice Copparelli, a middle-aged neighbor, offers a way station where he can stop for a rest and refurbish his damaged faith in humanity.
Since returning from the war in Vietnam, Mickey Pisludski wears a chain of armor piercing, machine gun shells draped around his thick neck. Like so many gold, sharks’ teeth, the shells fan out across a khaki T-shirt with a gash under the left armpit.
Susan Glaspell (1876 – July 28, 1948) was an American playwright, novelist, journalist and actress, who founded the Provincetown Players, the first modern American theatre company.
“Nok. Nok. Nok. Aram noks but nobody seams home.” Abi Petrosyan, an Armenian auto mechanic who emigrated from Azerbaijan in central Asia, just joined a creative writing workshop and things aren’t going well.
Of all the inspiring Victorian writers, Thomas Hardy ranks at the top of the list.
Students at Riverton High School are celebrating black heritage week. The English teacher, Alex Fulton, intends to comply with the school’s agenda but on his own terms not those of Melba Jackson, the DEI chairperson.
In his day William Somerset Maugham, who grew up poor, was the wealthiest writer in England. His novel, Of Human Bondage, was a literary masterpiece as were many of his unforgettable short stories.
Eighty year-old Morris Abrams can talk perfectly well but prefers not to, while Maureen Crowley prepares for an elaborate wedding she has no intentions of attending. What’s going on here?
No American author has ever duplicated the distinctive ‘voice’ or sensibilities of the Armenian-American short story writer, William Saroyan.
Screwie Louie, the fourteen-pound Lhasa apso, is the perfect sounding board for Otis Sander’s misanthropic pronouncements regarding a world gone ever so slightly berserk.
The German author, Hermann Hesse, who was all the rage during the ‘peace, love and groovy’ psychedelic sixties, resides in relative obscurity today. Whatever happened?
Ted’s wife, Sally, is a bleeding-heart liberal who suffers from a terminal case of Trump derangement syndrome; his daughter is a bra-burning feminazi who can’t hold a steady job for two months back to back. What to do?
Ask any self-respecting Frenchman who the best short story writer is and invariably they will answer Guy de Maupassant.
The Anderson Public Library employee manual strongly discourages office romances but the nerdy reference librarian, Madeline Horowitz, has fallen in love with Jerome McNulty, the chief administrator, and won’t be denied.
Try to describe a short story by the turn-of-the-century English writer, A. E. Coppard, and you will fall flat on your face. Nobody can.
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