Short stories by such writers as Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Joyce Carol Oates, John Gardner, and John Updike reveal experiments with myth and parable and other trends in American fiction during the past decade...
From the Iowa Writers Workshop to the halls of Congress and the National Endowment for the Arts, from the world of literary magazines and writers' conferences to the bizarre realm of the late-twentieth-century American English department, Literar...
Luke McGee lives an ordinary life -- he works a mind-numbing job at a PR company, where he hates his boss and directs his fury at his ever-failing typewriter, while his wife, Annie, stays at home taking care of their newborn baby, feeling dissatisfie...