Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Fiction, Essays & More
The Way It Began
Victoria Redel
They went, not in the day, but then in the dark with no shoes on their feet, the road pokey with broke-up shell.And the boy to the girl, Let’s be quick
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Fiction, Essays & More
Three Fictions
Matthew Salesses
I went out with the boys to celebrate saving my worthless job. The boys were in a rare state, waving arms even with drinks, sloshing on each other with gusto
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Fiction, Essays & MoreSyntax/Synapse Essays
A Fiction for the Future
Erik Hoel
At first it happened slowly, then all at once. We are now living in a world that would have been considered science fiction to any twentieth-century novelist.
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Fiction, Essays & MoreThe Model Short Story
On "The Death of a Government Clerk" by Anton Chekhov
Deb Olin Unferth
“Death of a Government Clerk” is one of Chekhov’s first published stories. I love it for its comic nonchalance, playful absurdity, brevity...
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Fiction, Essays & More
Elephant
Elissa Schappell
Paige sat on the edge of the sandbox waiting for Charlotte to show up. She was surprised at how much she’d missed talking to her
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Fiction, Essays & More
Ancient Greek
Dan Simon
Erica isn’t gifted in languages. Once long ago, she signed up for a German class and lasted exactly three days.
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Book RecsThe Book That Made Me a Reader
On Fun With Dick and Jane and Mary Poppins
Francine Prose
The book that made me a reader was, to be honest, Fun with Dick and Jane. I can’t remember much about it. See Spot run, I guess
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Fiction, Essays & More
Remembering Robert Stone
Roxana Robinson
“When I first read Robert Stone’s work I was struck by the beauty of the sentences. That’s the way a writer reads, listening to cadence...
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Fiction, Essays & More
Au Revoir, Ma Vie
Floyd Skloot
Jacques Goldman didn’t mind forgetting. There was plenty he was ready to forget. For starters, Goldman wouldn’t have objected to losing...
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Fiction, Essays & More
Mexican Honeymoon
Terese Svoboda
Edgy dogs tap their toenails beneath the staircase in the courtyard. He flaps his napkin at one, Caffay o-lay!, ordering in sight of the half-ruined...
