“Williams's fiction often portrays life as a downward spiral, and the failure of life in America, from a spiritual as well as eco...

This was a hell of a read. First, researching the author and finding her connection to Steve Jobs (Apple) and one of the writers for th...

Here we come across another story by Grace Paley. My first encounter with her can be found here . This was a difficult story...

It’s funny – well, funny in a strange way. This is just the type of story that M would use as an example if we had a little quarrel over t...

In his introduction, Carver let the reader know that he intended to include stories in this anthology that reflected “what it was like ...

As far as I know now, we were pretty lucky. I mean it could have turned out so much worse. We weren’t saddled with an abusive step-...

Back in one of my other lives, I worked in a restaurant. Before I began my work at the restaurant, I worked in a liquor store. I res...