Literary Fiction

On the back cover of You Know When the Men Are Gone, whoever it is who creates such marketing copy writes: “There is an army of women waiting for their men to return to Fort Hood, Texas.

After more than 200,000 years, Fabio has become bored with his job . . . as the incarnation of Fate.

Think of fiction as falling into two broad categories and leave aside all of the subgenres that you’ll find a book under in bookstores or libraries.

Kelly Simmons is a tease.

Reading this novel could leave you with a huge hangover—the amount of alcohol consumed by its narrator and his cronies is astounding and would have floored even Charles Bukowski.

In this often gorgeous and often disturbing memoir, writer and artist Mira Bartok narrates her agonized relationship with a schizophrenic mother.

If Specters were as good as its opening line “The valley was full of ghosts” it could have been intriguing, but it is not.

Literary fiction concerns itself with extraordinary people in ordinary situations, says Stephen King in the Afterword of his new book.

Alas, the promise of award-winning novelist, editor and publisher Carol Edgarian’s new novel, Three Stage of Amazement, is not realized, despite the success of her first fiction book,

If Jim Carroll’s The Basketball Diaries reads like an homage to Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, his posthumously published The Petting Zoo finds the author paying tribute to

Reading an Orhan Pamuk novel sometimes feels more like studying a painting or experiencing a work of architecture.

Angel Cat Sugar, created by Yuko Shimizu and realized here in a cute Valentine’s Day offering by Ellie O’Ryan is celebrating her favorite holiday.