What if superheroes were real? Would we still revere them so much? Or would they be too frightening for us to handle, too unstable for us to control? What...

Mark Twain is an incredibly prolific, incredibly distinctive author. This week’s read is just a short story and it’s one of Twain’s first major successes, but it manages to...

Justin Cronin got his start publishing quiet but moving “literary” fiction. In 2010, he blew up North America (in a manner of speaking) with his post-apocalyptic don’t-call-them-vampires “genre” novelThe...

Tell the Wolves I’m Home, author Carol Rifka Brunt’s first novel, is multi-faceted: it’s about different kinds of love. It’s about siblinghood, and growing up. It’s about the early...

Molière’sThe Misanthropeis a three-and-a-half centuries old play about something as old as time: dishing on your people behind their back. It’s also full of great zingers about man’s duplicitous...

A true classic, Harper Lee’sTo Kill a Mockingbirdis one of those books we should have read years ago. For the two of you who aren’t familiar, it’s a story...

Why do we keep trying to solve murders in small towns? What is it like for an American author to set a story in a sleepy Irish suburb? Will...

We double-dip a bit in this week’s show, reading two short stories and proving that you don’t have to have a ton of time to read something thought-provoking. The...

It’s almost baseball season! And what better way to celebrate America’s (former) pastime than to document the annual occurrence of Craig forcing Andrew to tolerate his love of baseball?...