Short Stories on Sunday

At Harper Perennial, where I work, we traffic in stories of all kinds. And we have a special fondness for the short story—self-contained, crystalline, newborn, perfect. This year we’re celebrating the thriving art of the story by sharing a new one every week:...

Nora Roberts, Innkeeper

Best-selling author Nora Roberts can now add “innkeeper” to her list of pursuits. Inn BoonsBoro is located in Boonsboro, Maryland, and the reason why I’m posting this has to do with the rooms themselves. They’re all modeled after literary...

Remembering Tony Hillerman

Tony Hillerman died yesterday at the age of 83. Hillerman’s evocative novels, which describe people struggling to maintain ancient traditions in the modern world, touched millions of readers, who made them best sellers. But although the themes of his books were...

National Book Award Nominees

For more information on the National Book Awards click here. FICTION Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project (Riverhead) Rachel Kushner, Telex from Cuba (Scribner) Peter Matthiessen, Shadow Country (Modern Library) Marilynne Robinson, Home (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)...