G.P. Putnam

"Bookmark that Thought": Karen Joy Fowler and Telling the Story (of the Story)

Something Happened. It's the title of one of my favorite-ever novels, by Joseph "Catch-22" Heller, and a book too often overlooked. It's a terrifically and purposefully and necessarily digressive work, not to mention a tragic mea culpa, but the two-word under-overstatement is simultaneously one of t ... More >>

Telling the Bees: New, Bright OC Novel on Old, Fading OC Culture

This photograph of retired stacked-up Pacific Electric "red cars" makes me sad, as it should you, especially if you are a native Southern Californian.  Yet its arrangement offers a kind of visual poetry, so much resembling the mission of Peggy Hesketh's debut novel Telling the Bees and at the s ... More >>

[Summer Guide] Short Story Collections With Legs