
A bountiful collection of previously unpublished stories-by Julia Alvarez, Frederick Barthelme, Michael Chabon, Alice Fulton, Mary Gaitskill, David Haynes, Gary Krist, Jill McCorkle, Melanie Rae Thon, and ten others-whose royalties benefit Share Our Strength’s antihunger programs.

Two brothers with seemingly opposite personalities follow different paths through life until the paths converge in a sudden process of self-discovery

Carry Me Across the Water is a novel by the American writer Ethan Canin. It is an elegiac novel that tells the story of August Kleinman, a 78-year-old former Pittsburgh brewery owner who remembers episodes from his life—from his escape from Nazi Germany to his life of poverty in New York to his rise to riches in …