“I am the man who surrendered with one boot gone on St. Valentine’s Day, the year of our lord nineteen hundred and thirteen, with the smell of salt and woodsmoke and gunpowder in the air.” I first read The Wars of Heaven when it came out in 1991....
Next Tuesday, we’ll be releasing our third collection of short fiction from NPR’s “Voice of Books,” Alan Cheuse. This collection — An Authentic Captain Marvel Ring & Other Stories — is the largest and most ambitious one yet. My...
Update January 2016: We All Scream, a memoir about the rise and fall of Gifford’s Ice cream and the family behind it, will be released in January of 2017. You can keep up to date by visiting the Gifford’s Ice Cream Facebook group, following me on Twitter,...
Update January 2017: We All Scream, a memoir about the rise and fall of Gifford’s Ice cream and the family behind it, is now available. Order it here. I wrote this article several years ago, and have now updated it with all of the new research and...
The winners of the 2013 SFWP Literary Awards for Nonfiction are: Grand Prize: Annita Sawyer for Smoking Cigarettes, Eating Glass Runner-up: Allen Gee for My Chinese America Runner-up: Mary Quade for Ideal Uncertainties We will be featuring their work and interviewing...