On December 1st, we’ll be releasing our latest ebook — Richard Currey’s The Wars of Heaven, bringing this stunning collection of short stories back into print (virtually speaking) for the first time since 1999. I wrote about this project earlier, and...
Chocolá can be reached by traveling from Guatemala City along a labyrinthine network of mountain roads leading to a region neither exactly in the highlands nor exactly in the lowlands known to archaeologists as the “Southern Maya Zone.” It is a real place. I have been...
Joseph M. Schuster. In 2004, Literary Awards Program judge Richard Currey saw a remarkable talent and, with two others, placed Schuster’s entry, A Saint in the Family, solidly in the winner’s circle. Now, this year, Schuster has released his first book...
Here’s Howard Norman’s lovely introduction to SFWP’s upcoming title, Paradise, or, Eat Your Face by Alan Cheuse. # # # I read these novellas the way one might the most highly esteemed Edo-period Japan triptych: in its entirety the screen orchestrates...
The winners for the 2011 Literary Awards Program are in! The grand prize goes to: Lance Larsen for Seventeen Ways to Float. In second place is: Angie Chuang for The Four Words for Home In third place we have: Emily Stone for In Search of Chocola: Love, Chocolate, and...
It was cool for that time of year, tolerable. The night was hidden by a hazy mist that clung to the van’s windshield. Larry almost didn’t see the kid until he was upon him—a ghost on the side of the road, neither coming nor going. Larry passed him—no...
