“Ben Greenman, an editor at the New Yorker, is a writer who is seriously weird. He is also seriously funny. Yet the best of the stories in this collection are more than funny.” That’s the San Francisco Chronicle on A Circle is a Balloon and Compass Both: Stories About Human Love — but that was last year. Read more.

Fictionaut Tayari Jones is one of the writers to win a 2008 United States Artist Fellowship, along with Jeff Chang, Joy Harjo, and Barry Hannah. Tayari’s first novel, Leaving Atlanta, is a coming-of-age story that centers on the Atlanta child murders of 1979–81 and won the 2003 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction. Her second novel, The Untelling, traces the legacy of a fatal accident that haunts a family. Read more.

A former science journalist living in Jerusalem, Tania Hershman has been named named the European regional winner of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association’s short story competition. Her debut collection The White Road and Other Stories has been praised for its “unique combination of narrative extravagance and human intimacy” by Melvin Jules Bukiet.

“Sign me up as a member of the Keith Lee Morris fan club. His characters are as real, fallible, and surprising as anyone I’ve ever met, and his novel has all the textures of real life: precarious, tender, and utterly engrossing.” That’s Kelly Link, author of Magic for Beginners, on Fictionaut Keith Lee Morris‘s new […]

With his second novel The Wettest County in the World out now, Matt Bondurant kicks off the Fictionaut Five, a new feature in which we ask one of our members a few hard-hitting questions. “Brilliantly conceived, and so close to home, this novel proves Matt Bondurant’s burgeoning talent — a book for thirsty American readers […]