A spy wanders through a strange series of interludes, attacks and interrogations as he struggles to decipher the identity of his potential assassin in Hunt's murky ...

Laird Hunt powerfully channeled the melancholy sweetness of Gustave Flaubert’s “A Simple Heart” in his 2021 novel, “Zorrie,” set in the farmland of Clinton County, Ind., where the author grew up. It ...

In search of something good to read? USA TODAY's Barbara VanDenburgh scopes out the shelves for this week’s hottest new book releases. 1. “Kink,” edited by Garth Greenwell and R.O. Kwon (Simon & ...

The National Book Foundation announced Professor of Literary Arts Laird Hunt’s novel “Zorrie” as one of its five finalists for the National Book Award in the fiction category Oct. 5. The non-profit ...

A little more than a century ago, Sherwood Anderson’s “Winesburg, Ohio” introduced a new kind of American novel: one composed of short stories that share a setting and that elevate, one by one, ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The Exhibit X Fiction Series presented by the University at Buffalo Department of English, which brings internationally renowned writers to Buffalo every year, will sponsor a free ...

Books Inc. and the Belmont Library present two-time finalist for the PEN Center USA Award in Fiction Laird Hunt in celebration of the paperback release of his critically-acclaimed novel Neverhome.

A spy wanders through a strange series of interludes, attacks and interrogations as he struggles to decipher the identity of his potential assassin in Hunt's murky, obscure debut novel. It opens ...

Not all history is learned - or taught - in school. In today's first interview, Robert Jones Jr. tells NPR's Scott Simon that he wanted to be 'a witness to [those] testimonies that have not made it ...

The novelist Laird Hunt grew up all over the world but for five years of his life, during middle school and high school, he lived with his grandmother on a farm the family still owns in central ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Laird Hunt A PECULIAR PERIL By Jeff VanderMeer Picture a 200-foot-long death machine built to ...