The Thin Tear in the Fabric of Space gathers stories about coping with grief, trying to love people who have died, and -- more broadly -- leaving old versions of the self behind, sometimes by choice and sometimes out of necessity. In each of the nine...
In the winter of 2001, 29-year-old Walt Steadman survives a shooting in his favorite Boston cafe that leaves four people dead. In the aftermath, Walt forms two new relationships: one with Ginger Newton, a privileged, reckless, Harvard undergraduate w...
Colin, a newly divorced lecturer of critical theory, wants to spice up his life. He attempts to learn Russian, gives online dating a go, and even entertains the idea of becoming an alcoholic -- but nothing sticks. So when two young women he’s never...
A lonely female accountant falls for a man who seems to have stepped out of a Greek myth; a scholar uncovers a lost Shakespearean couplet and decides to quit academia; a celebrated author experiments with downloading a story from her brain and upload...