AT HOME IN THE DARK—Preview #3—Ed Park

From Publishers Weekly: “Ed Park’s warm and winning fiction debut, Personal Days, is narrated by a collective we of youngish Manhattan office grunts who watch in helpless horror as their company keeps shrinking, taking their private world of in-jokes and...

AT HOME IN THE DARK —Preview #1—Elaine Kagan

“Elaine Kagan’s ‘Hot Pants’ features a young woman caring for a father sliding into dementia (Is there anything darker than that?), while fending off harassment at work. The panic and hopelessness of her circumstances are as disquieting as it...

It’s me again…

You’ve got to be kidding. Three newsletters in three weeks? What can I say? Far too much, evidently. Months go by without word from you, and then you turn up in our mailboxes every seven days.  Um— You’re like a college student who’s running out of...