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Authors
Meet the writers whose original short stories can be read on FiveChapters.com.
Arthur Phillips, the author of "Groundhog Day," was born in Minneapolis and educated at Harvard. He has been a child actor, a jazz musician, a speechwriter, a dismally failed entrepreneur, and a five-time Jeopardy! champion. His first novel, "Prague," was... Read More >>
Jess Walter is the author of the novel "The Zero," a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award, and "Citizen Vince," winner of the 2005 Edgar Allen Poe award for best novel. He is also the author of the novels... Read More >>
Jennifer Egan is the author of three novels, including her latest "The Keep." In its front cover review of "The Keep" in July, The New York Times Book Review wrote: "Egan sustains an awareness that the text is being manipulated... Read More >>
Patrick Somerville is the author of the short-story collection "Trouble" (Vintage). He was praised by Publisher's Weekly as a writer who "crafts stories that, with equal parts grace and humility, highlight mordant absurdity and revel in darkly comic moments." He... Read More >>
Lawrence Douglas is the author of "The Catastrophist" (Other Press), a novel which earned raves from the New York Times, Village Voice, and Entertainment Weekly, and was praised by Kirkus as "very nearly an American 'Lucky Jim.'"... Read More >>
Sam Lipsyte is the author of the novels "Home Land" and "The Subject Steve," and a short story collection, "Venus Drive."... Read More >>
Aimee Bender is the author of two short story collections, "Willful Creatures" (now in paperback) and "The Girl in the Flammable Skirt," and a novel, "An Invisible Sign of My Own." Her stories have appeared in Granta, GQ, Harper's, the... Read More >>
Stewart O'Nan's latest novel, "Last Night at the Lobster" (Viking), will be published in November. His many novels include "Snow Angels," "The Speed Queen," "A Prayer for the Dying," "The Night Country" and "The Good Wife." Granta has named him... Read More >>
Lauren Grodstein is the author of the novel "Reproduction Is the Flaw of Love" and a short-story collection, "The Best of Animals." She's currently finishing her next novel, "The Levinson Affair."... Read More >>
Panio Gianopoulos' writing has appeared in Tin House, Nerve and Northwest Review. His fiction and essays have been anthologized in "The Bastard on the Couch," "The Encyclopedia of Exes" and "Cooking and Stealing."... Read More >>
Brian DeVido is the author of the novel "Every Time I Talk to Liston." The New York Times Book Review said that "DeVido's writing shows quiet purpose in every move, carrying its insider knowledge with easy confidence."... Read More >>
Vendela Vida is the author of the novel "Let The Northern Lights Erase Your Name," now available in paperback.... Read More >>
Anthony Swofford is the author of the new novel "Exit A" (Scribner).... Read More >>
Rhett Miller is the lead singer of the Old 97s, whose albums include Drag It Up, Satellite Rides, Fight Songs and Too Far to Care. He has also released two acclaimed solo records, The Believer and The Instigator. His fiction... Read More >>
Thisbe Nissen is the author of two novels, "Osprey Island" and "The Good People of New York," and a story collection, "Out of the Girls Room and Into the Night."... Read More >>
J. Robert Lennon is the author of "Mailman," "On the Night Plain," "The Funnies" and "The Light of Falling Stars."... Read More >>
Marcus Sakey, praised by George Pelecanos as "an authentic, original new voice in crime fiction," is the author of the novel "The Blade Itself" (St. Martin's). The New York Times Book Review praised "The Blade Itself" as a "white-knuckle story... Read More >>
Rachel Sherman is the author of the story collection "The First Hurt" (Open City), which The Believer called "a startling debut collection" and Time Out New York praised for its "laser-cut narratives."... Read More >>
Elizabeth Crane is the author of two story collections, "When the Messenger is Hot" and "All This Heavenly Glory" (both Little, Brown). Her third, "You Must Be This Happy To Enter," will be published in September by Punk Planet.... Read More >>
Adam Rapp is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, director and novelist. His new novel, "The Year of Endless Sorrows," is available now from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. His many plays include "Red Light Winter," "Blackbird," "Nocturne," "Finer Noble Gases" and "Essential... Read More >>
Alison McGhee is the author of the new novel "Falling Boy," a Picador paperback original.... Read More >>
Danielle Trussoni is the author of the memoir "Falling Through the Earth," which won the 2006 Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award and was named one of the 10 best books of the year by the New York Times.... Read More >>
Ann Cummins is the author of the new novel "Yellowcake" (Houghton Mifflin) and the story collection "Red Ant House," which the San Francisco Chronicle called "startlingly original" and named one of their Best Books of the Year.... Read More >>
Margo Rabb's debut, "Cures for Heartbreak" (Random House/Delacorte), was praised by Michael Chabon as a "sad, funny, smart, endlessly poignant novel."... Read More >>
Lara Tupper is the author of the new novel "A Thousand and One Nights" (Harcourt). The Boston Globe praised it as "shrewdly observed and redolent of inside information about life behind the door marked 'Private.'"... Read More >>
Meghan O'Rourke is the author of the poetry collection "Halflife" (W.W. Norton), the culture editor of Slate, and a poetry editor at the Paris Review.... Read More >>
Curtis Sittenfeld is the author of the international bestsellers "Prep" and "The Man of My Dreams," now available in paperback.... Read More >>
Nick Arvin is the author of the novel "Articles of War," which was named one of 2005's Books of the Year by Esquire, and the story collection "In the Electric Eden."... Read More >>
Ben Greenman is an editor at the New Yorker.... Read More >>
Ben Dolnick is the author of the new novel "Zoology" (Vintage).... Read More >>
Adam Braver is the author of the novel "Crows Over The Wheatfield" (HarperCollins), now available in paperback. Margot Livesey hailed it as "a remarkably absorbing and intelligent novel."... Read More >>
Jess Row is the author of the acclaimed story collection "The Train to Lo Wu" (Dial Press).... Read More >>
Jessica Francis Kane is the author of the story collection "Bending Heaven" (Counterpoint/Chatto & Windus). The New York Times Book Review praised it as "that rarest of debut collections: grounded but thoughtful, learned without being pretentious. Jessica Francis Kane's stories... Read More >>
Robert Anthony Siegel is the author of the novels "All Will Be Revealed" (published in March by MacAdam/Cage) and "All The Money in the World."... Read More >>
Edward Schwarzschild is the author of the novel "Responsible Men" (Algonquin), and a story collection, "The Family Diamond," which will be published by Algonquin in September.... Read More >>
Alix Ohlin is the author of the novel "The Missing Person" and a collection, "Babylon and Other Stories" (Vintage), newly published in paperback.... Read More >>
Aurelie Sheehan is the author of two novels, "History Lesson for Girls" (just published in paperback) and "The Anxiety of Everyday Objects," as well as a story collection, "Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant."... Read More >>
Rebecca Curtis is the author of the new story collection "Twenty Grand and Other Tales of Love and Money" (Harper Perennial). The Village Voice called her "one of the more promising short story writers in America today." George Saunders described... Read More >>
Taylor Antrim is the author of the new novel "The Headmaster Ritual" (Mariner).... Read More >>
James P. Othmer is the author of the acclaimed debut novel "The Futurist" (now an Anchor Books paperback), the first chapter of which was a National Magazine Award finalist in fiction.... Read More >>
Jeffrey Frank is the author of the new novel "Trudy Hopedale" (Simon & Schuster).... Read More >>
Jennifer S. Davis is the author of the new story collection "Our Former Lives In Art" (Random House).... Read More >>
Pauls Toutonghi is the author of "Red Weather," newly published in paperback by Three Rivers. The Seattle Times called it "a lightning rod of captivating humor, colorful characters and well-crafted prose."... Read More >>
Richard Lange is the author of the new story collection "Dead Boys" (Little, Brown).... Read More >>
Michelle Wildgen is the author of the novel "You're Not You," now in paperback from Picador.... Read More >>
Ann Packer is the author of the new novel "Songs Without Words" (Knopf), from which "Liz & Lauren" is an excerpt.... Read More >>
Ken Chowder is the author of three novels, "Blackbird Days," "Delicate Geometry" and "Jadis." The Washington Post raved that "Chowder has the extraordinary ability to find beauty in the everyday mess of love relationships."... Read More >>
Ellen Litman is the author of "The Last Chicken in America: A Novel in Stories" (W.W. Norton).... Read More >>
Matthew Pearl is the author of the international best sellers "The Dante Club" and "The Poe Shadow" (now in paperback).... Read More >>
Brock Clarke is the author of the new novel "An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England" (Algonquin). The Washington Post raved that, "Clarke's novel sizzles. ... This straight-faced, postmodern comedy scorches all things literary, from those moldy author... Read More >>
David Schickler is the author of the acclaimed best sellers "Kissing in Manhattan" and "Sweet and Vicious."... Read More >>
Jay McInerney's critically acclaimed and best selling novels include "Bright Lights, Big City," "Ransom," "Story of My Life," "Brightness Falls" and his latest, "The Good Life," now available in paperback.... Read More >>
Joshua Henkin is the author of the new novel "Matrimony," which the New York Times praised as "a lifelike, likable book populated by three-dimensional characters who make themselves very much at home on the page."... Read More >>
Margaret Lazarus Dean is the author of the novel "The Time It Takes to Fall" (Simon & Schuster). The paperback edition will be published in February.... Read More >>
Dallas Hudgens is the author of the novels "Season of Gene" (Scribner) and "Drive Like Hell."... Read More >>
George Singleton is the author of the new novel "Work Shirts for Madmen" (Harcourt).... Read More >>
Porochista Khakpour is the author of the novel "Sons and Other Flammable Objects" (Grove Press).... Read More >>
Ryan Boudinot is the author of the story collection "The Littlest Hitler" (Counterpoint). "Imagine a 21st century version of suburban scribe John Cheever writing brilliantly under the influence of hallucinogens," raved USA Today. "The result: 13 stories that will alternately... Read More >>
Laura Kasischke is the author of several novels, including "The Life Before Her Eyes" and "Be Mine," newly available in paperback from Harcourt.... Read More >>
Rudolph Delson is the author of the novel "Maynard & Jennica" (Houghton Mifflin).... Read More >>
Nick Hornby's best-selling novels include "High Fidelity," "About A Boy," "How To Be Good" and "A Long Way Down."... Read More >>
Rick Moody is the author of the novels "Garden State" (which won the Pushcart Press Editors' Book Award), "The Ice Storm," "Purple America" and "The Diviners."... Read More >>
Kevin Brockmeier's new story collection, "The View from the Seventh Layer," will be published in March by Pantheon.... Read More >>
Jami Attenberg is the author of the new novel "The Kept Man" (Riverhead) and a story collection, "Instant Love."... Read More >>
Neil Smith is the author of the new story collection "Bang Crunch" (Vintage).... Read More >>
Rhett Miller is the lead singer of the Old 97s, whose albums include Drag It Up, Satellite Rides, Fight Songs and Too Far to Care. He has also released two acclaimed solo records, The Believer and The Instigator. His fiction... Read More >>
Katherine Hester's story collection "Eggs For Young America" won the Katharine Bakeless Nason Fiction Prize and was named a 1997 notable book by the New York Times.... Read More >>
Samantha Hunt is the author of the new novel "The Invention of Everything Else" (Houghton Mifflin).... Read More >>
Lauren Groff is the author of the new novel "The Monsters of Templeton" (Hyperion).... Read More >>
Amanda Stern is the author of the novel "The Long Haul" (Soft Skull).... Read More >>
Amanda Eyre Ward is the author of the novels "How To Be Lost," "Sleep Like Heaven" and "Forgive Me," which is now available in paperback.... Read More >>
Chip Kidd is a graphic designer and writer living in New York City and Stonington, Connecticut. His latest book is the novel "The Learners."... Read More >>
Beth Helms is the author of the new novel "Dervishes" (Picador), which Sara Gruen praised as "a brilliant, moving anfd utterly brave debut."... Read More >>
Adam Mansbach is the author of the new novel "The End of the Jews" (Spiegel & Grau/Doubleday).... Read More >>
Joanna Hershon is the author of the new novel "The German Bride," as well as the novels "Swimming" and "The Outside of August."... Read More >>
Marshall Klimasewiski is the author of the new story collection "Tyrants" (W.W. Norton) and a novel, "The Cottagers."... Read More >>
Kate Christensen is the author of four novels, "The Great Man," "The Epicure's Lament," "Jeremy Thrane" and "In The Drink."... Read More >>
Nathaniel Rich is the author of the new novel "The Mayor's Tongue" (Riverhead).... Read More >>
Nam Le is the author of the new story collection "The Boat" (Knopf).... Read More >>
Andrew Foster Altschul is the author of the new novel "Lady Lazarus" (Harcourt).... Read More >>
Ed Park is the author of the new novel "Personal Days" (Random House).... Read More >>
Leni Zumas is the author of the new collection "Farewell Navigator" (Open City).... Read More >>
Lara Vapnyar is the author of two story collections, "Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love" and "There Are Jews In My House," and a novel, "Memoirs of a Muse."... Read More >>
Michael Dahlie is the author of the forthcoming novel "A Gentleman's Guide to Graceful Living" (Norton).... Read More >>
Katherine Taylor is the author of the novel "Rules For Saying Goodbye," which the Philadelphia Inquirer called "a finely crafted debut novel." The Boston Globe raved that "Taylor's story moves far and fast and is engaging and entertaining at every... Read More >>
Darin Strauss is the author of the new novel "More Than It Hurts You" (Penguin).... Read More >>
Sana Krasikov is the author of the story collection "One More Year" (Spiegel & Grau), which will be published in August.... Read More >>
Pia Z. Ehrhardt is the author of the story collection "Famous Fathers" (MacAdam/Cage).... Read More >>
Ron Rash is the author of the novels "The World Made Straight," "Saints at the River" and "One Foot in Eden," as well as three story collections, "Chemistry and Other Stories," "Casualties" and "The Night the New Jesus Fell to... Read More >>
Josh Emmons is the author of the new novel "Prescription for a Superior Existence" (Scribner). His first novel, "The Loss of Leon Meed," is now in paperback. It was praised by the Los Angeles Times as an "audaciously ambitious first... Read More >>
Paul LaFarge is the author of the acclaimed novels "The Artist of the Missing" and "Haussmann, or the Distinction," a 2001 New York Times Notable Book.... Read More >>
Marisa Silver is the author of the new novel "The God of War," which the Chicago Tribune praised as a "dark and nearly flawless novel."... Read More >>
Preeta Samarasan is the author of the novel "Evening is the Whole Day" (Houghton Mifflin).... Read More >>
Julia Glass' next work of fiction, "I See You Everywhere," which includes this story, will be published in October 2008 by Pantheon Books.... Read More >>
Jincy Willett is the author of the new novel "The Writing Class" (St. Martin's), as well as the novel "Winner of the National Book Award" and the story collection "Jenny & the Jaws of Life."... Read More >>
Ross Raisin is the author of the new novel "Out Backward" (Harper Perennial).... Read More >>
Joshua Furst is the author of the novel "The Sabotage Cafe," new in paperback from Vintage, and a story collection, "Short People" (Knopf).... Read More >>
Porter Shreve is the author of the new novel "When the White House Was Ours" (Mariner/Houghton Mifflin).... Read More >>
Simon Rich is the author of the new collection "Free-Range Chickens" and "Ant Farm: And Other Desperate Situations."... Read More >>
Allison Amend is the author of the collection "Things That Pass For Love," which will be published in October.... Read More >>
Jeff Hobbs is the author of the novel "The Tourists" (Simon & Schuster).... Read More >>
Scott Hutchins' fiction has appeared in Esquire and StoryQuarterly.... Read More >>
Amy Shearn is the author of the novel "How Far Is the Ocean From Here" (Shaye Areheart).... Read More >>
Ted Heller is the author of the novels "Slab Rat" and "Funnymen."... Read More >>
Michael Byers is the author of the novel "Long For This World" and the story collection "The Coast of Good Intentions."... Read More >>
Stephen Amidon is the author of six novels, including "Human Capital," "The New City" and "The Primitive," as well as a story collection, "Subdivision." His latest novel, "Security," will be published by FSG in February 2009.... Read More >>
Todd Hasak-Lowy is the author of the new novel "Captives," and a story collection, "The Task of This Translator."... Read More >>
Irina Reyn is the author of the novel "What Happened to Anna K." (Touchstone/Simon& Schuster).... Read More >>
Ben Schrank is the author of the novels "Consent" and "Miracle Man."... Read More >>
Paul G. Tremblay is the author of the novel "The Little Sleep" (Henry Holt), which will be published in February.... Read More >>
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