In 2005, Joel Pearlman waits at Logan Airport with a sign reading Idzia: the name of the teenage daughter he’s never met. In 1986, Liesel Pearlman weeps on the couch with a negative pregnancy test in
Spark (creative writing, Colby College) has both novice and experienced writers in mind as she works through key questions about fiction writing. Drawing on decades of teaching and writing experience,
From Victorian toy theatres to a painting with a mysterious story behind it to a graphic novelist's battle with the schizophrenia which causes her cartoon characters to march off the page, the novella
First published in 1986, an anthology of short stories by a new generation of writers--all under thirty--encompasses the contributions of Susan Minot, Bret Lott, Michelle Carter, David Updike, Kate Wh