conversation with Write the Book’s Shelagh Shapiro

Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative

"[A] boundlessly inventive look at narrative form... filled with clarity and wit, underlain with formidable erudition." Read more →
Nine Island

Nine Island is an intimate nonfiction novel, told by J, a woman who lives in a glass tower on one of Miami Beach’s lush Venetian Islands. Read more →
Change Me

Jane Alison's new translations brilliantly render into English a series of erotic passages from the Amores and various wondrous tales of... Read more →
The Sisters Antipodes

In this enormously compelling memoir, novelist Alison (Natives and Exotics) recounts the strangely definitive reconfiguration of... Read more →
The Love-Artist

Why was Ovid, the most popular author of his day, banished to the edge of the Roman Empire? As the story opens, Ovid (b. 43 B.C.)... Read more →
The Marriage of the Sea

A tragical comedy set in New Orleans and Venice, about four men, three women, food, architecture, love and water. Oswaldo’s beloved... Read more →
Natives and Exotics

It's a difficult thing to crave, land, especially when your body is small. And a dangerous thing. Generations of an Australian family are... Read more →