A Visit from the Goon Squad (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Definitions are funny things. In the publishing world, a work of fiction is often defined by its word count: a short story is so many words, a novel is so many words, anything in between is, depending on who you ask, a novella or a novelette or unpublishable. In reality, of course, there are plenty […]

As comedian Martin Mull once said, “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” That is, words often fail when describing music. But there are many stellar music-infused works of fiction that prove this adage wrong, with writing that’s just as artful as the music that inspired it. Here are five books involving music that […]

Novelists seem to get all the hype. The short story was once considered just as important as the novel—think Hemingway or Chekhov—but at some point, there just didn’t seem to be a market for short fiction any more. But recently, that’s begun to change. New technology, shorter attention spans, and a wave of films adapted from […]

Steamy thrillers, delirious fantasies, peeks behind closed doors, classics you’ve been meaning to get to, and new releases everyone will be talking about: recommended by our booksellers, these are the books to read this summer. Back To Top