“You know, newspaper story and a book are both the same basic species. I think no, they aren’t. They’re the same genus. One’s a cat and one’s a tiger.”
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“When she was young the river only ever seemed to spill over with promise.”
An excerpt from James Elkins’ “Stories, Like Illnesses.”
An excerpt from Amber Blaeser-Wardzala’s novel “Another Name for Red.”
“I thought if nonfiction was going to offer certainty, I had to do the opposite, render uncertainty.”
“We gather on the lawn to take pictures of that eerie sunset. Somehow, it is beautiful, the sky’s last curtain call.”
“’I thought I was completely done with this world,’ she said. So much so that she went on to write two other novels – ones that had nothing to do with toxic female friendship, MFA programs, or rabbits.”
“Not good. Especially if anyone ever found out I was in fact Idris Elba. Idris Elba calling a rando in a coffeeshop following his very serious accident? Oh no.”
An excerpt from Norwegian author Jo Nesbø’s new thriller from Knopf.
A short story from Lisa Slage Robinson’s upcoming “Esquire Ball: Stories from the Great Black Swamp.”
