sleepytom

"An anthology of short stories about the North American wilderness"-- Provided by publisher.

Long before 1984, Star Wars, or The Hunger Games, Victorian authors imagined a future where new science and technologies reshaped the world and universe they knew. The great themes of modern science fiction showed up surprisingly early: space and...

In Calvin Trillin’s antic tales of family life, Alice was portrayed as the wife who had “a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day” and the mother who thought that if you didn’t go to every performance of your child’s...

"The great humorist Ian Frazier gathers his dispatches from the frontlines of American culture"-- Provided by publisher.