I know that it’s impossible to believe, but it’s already past the midpoint of 2014. Wow, that was fast! The TBR pile on my shelf was gigantic at the beginning of the year, but it has slowly dissipated, as summer has come and (n...

In Half as Happy, his second book of short stories, Gregory Spatz plays around, as his title suggests, with ideas of halves and doubles. His characters live with a constant sense of incompleteness, as if there is always someone...