While watching his career and marriage disintegrate, Samuel Karnish meets a young Hasidic couple from Brooklyn and embarks on an unlikely friendship with them, a relationship that leaves him morally confused and doubting his own faith. Reprint. 15,00...
These days, Bonnie Saks is lucky to gets four consecutive hours of shut-eye, what with her bed-wetting young son, her unfinished doctoral thesis, her meager teaching salary, and the fact that she’s pregnant by a lover about as reliable as her ex-hu...
For years Robert Cohen has been praised by reviewers and readers alike for his masterful prose and his exuberant and penetrating comic vision. The New York Times has even called his writing redemptive -- so satisfying as to "remind readers why they c...
Destroyer veterans release short story collection Fifteen members of the Secret Scurvy Dog Society relate their own accounts, many humorous and some pointedly not, of life at sea on U.S. Navy destroyers during the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the...
Teddy Hastings is more of a doer than a thinker, a man who measures his life by what he has built: a successful career as a middle school principal, a solid marriage, two lovely if distant daughters. But once he hits fifty, in the shadow of his young...
It’s been a long time since Marty Fenton was in the PI business. He never saw himself as the glamorous variety of personal investigator, either -- he mostly focused on proving cases of marital infidelity. He’s since moved on to seeking a Ph.D. in...