Laura Benedict is the author of the newly released novel Bliss House. She has written three other novels and numerous short stories; she was also the editor of a publication called Surreal South, an Anthology of Short Fiction. ...

Readers have been fascinated by the survival of the human race for centuries. Did you know that Mary Shelley wrote The Last Man in 1826? Sure, it wasn’t truly accepted and appreciated until the 1900s, but imaginations of ...

I recently encountered the useful literary term “dirty realism.” It was coined by Bill Buford, former editor of Granta magazine, to describe American literature of the 1980s, including authors like Raymond Carver, Tobias Wolff,...