Chicago’s western suburbs. Young Joe Walsh is making a go of it at a new school, still haunted by...

Nestor Gomez was sure he had found love with his new girlfriend. The only problem? His girlfriend...

A group of tugboat passengers grapples with a disturbing loss. A record-holding hiccuper confront...

Nestor Gomez was sure he had found love with his new girlfriend. The only problem? His girlfriend...

Néstor Gómez estaba seguro de que había encontrado el amor con su nueva novia. ¿El único problema...

Néstor Gómez estaba seguro de que había encontrado el amor con su nueva novia. ¿El único problema...

With Jerks, Sara Lippmann rides the proverbial clutch between wanting and having. Ambivalent moth...

The Autobiography of Ember

Hidden River

Frank Buck: Chicago Hitman

In late December of 1941, two parachutists dropped into occupied Europe on a mission to assassina...

Andy's a bartender on Chicago's West Side in the late 1970s. For years, he's been slinging beers ...

May, 1970. After a one-month launch delay, Apollo 13 lands in the Fra Mauro Highlands of the moon...

Saudade reportedly has no direct English translation; it's a Portuguese word describing the nosta...

Detective Art Topp has a wife…or rather, had a wife. It's really hard to tell. On one hand...

April, 1972. Three legendary astronauts embark on man's boldest space voyage yet-a yearlong missi...

A mysterious man appears suspended in the air above a major American city. A foul-mouthed posse o...

An unadulterated look inside the lives of those hardest hit by the Great Recession, Steve Passey ...

Alan and Audrey Taylor are raising three children and coping with the demands of busy careers whe...

In Another Sun is a lovely and eloquent look at one woman's journey towards, and away from, the A...

'Sandy Kurtz has problems. He's got a baby on the way, his wife doesn't love him, and he's strugg...

This irresistible collection of stories brilliantly skewers the close-to-rich and not-so-famous o...

Jax, a magazine-cover model, has had half her face destroyed in a bomb blast. Drowning in whiskey...

This hard-hitting collection of creative essays explores the beauty and pain embedded in some of ...

A former undocumented immigrant and current American citizen documents his experiences chasing th...

Previously published as The New York stories.

'The local bar--the true, no-frills, nameless dive bar--offers its patrons a refuge, a place to e...

June, 1968. An air force astronaut flies to an orbiting observation platform for a forty-day stin...

After over a decade in prison, a young sculptor, Yuri Dilienko, returns to his old neighborhood i...

Like an arrowhead, the title story in this collection pierces through our tough skin and through ...

The natural successor to Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg collection, Caves of the Rust Belt: Ohio S...

American Sfumato consists of nine mesmerizing stories, each designed to function independently an...

Amidst the teeming tenements of 1970s Bombay (Mumbai), a hungry teenage boy struggles through lif...

In this surreal series of dreamscapes, bears roam the subway, and fathers become fish. But for al...

Aging widower Russ Lanaker knows he doesn't know his neighbors-but when he finds out one of them ...

This collection of short stories 'on the human condition features protagonists attempting to make...

'Drawn, written, and designed by Dmitry Samarov.'--Page facing title page.

A former undocumented immigrant and current American citizen documents his experiences chasing th...

October, 1967. Yuri Gagarin sits atop a Proton rocket, ready to launch. After several turbulent y...

Set in diverse locations, including Chicago, Georgia, and Florida, Wilson's stories offer a serie...

Tyrone has a problem. Several problems, in fact: a girlfriend who sleeps around, a boss he's slee...

Stunning and visceral in its emotional impact, The Dark Will End The Dark collects 14 stories by ...

'Meiselman has had enough. After a life spent playing by the rules, this lonely thirty-six-year-o...

'Radio. It's almost as easy as marriage and motherhood.The excitement of a career on the air! Lis...

In this surreal series of dreamscapes, bears roam the subway, and fathers become fish. But for al...

'Drawn, written, and designed by Dmitry Samarov.'--Page facing title page.

A unique hybrid memoir, Regan Burke's In That Number chronicles one woman's struggle to find grac...

In 2014, author and bullrunning expert Bill Hillmann was gored in the streets of Pamplona by a bu...