The short stories in Dan Chaon's fifth book - a dark dozen set in the debauched minds of middle-aged mourners and under the stark fluorescent lights of midnight emergency rooms - are as unrelenting in ...
: [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: In the broadcast version of this interview, Robell Awake incorrectly said that the song "Stars Fell on Alabama" was written by Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. It was ...
Even ordinary activities—working, managing money, caring for animals, growing plants—can be plumbed for deeper meaning; the quotidian can be transformed into the spiritual by those who want to dive ...