A heartrending reassemblage of a life in its waning moments Fifteen years ago, Kathryn Scanlan found a stranger’s diary at an estate auction in a small town in Illinois. The owner of the diary was eighty-six years old when she began recording th...
Named a Best Book of 2020 by The Guardian, Southwest Review, and Publishers Weekly"[The stories] are short, but their mood and imagery are lasting, and reflective of brutal truths of the commerce of human civilization . . . chilling, finely tuned pie...
About one woman’s fine, hard life at the racetrack, Kick the Latchâ€"with its ruthless concision and artful mysteriesâ€"is lightning in a bottle Kathryn Scanlan’s Kick the Latch vividly captures the arc of one woman’s life at the racetrack -- t...