If only she weren't so prolific, the thinking goes, that Nobel would be hers.  And Joyce Carol Oates – with the aid of her pseudonyms Rosamond Smith and Lauren Kelley – is nothing if not prolific, having written well over fifty books in her lifetime.  But this is not for lack

The terrifically-named Wells Tower had been writing professionally – had been published, that is – for a little under two decades before releasing his first short story collection, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned.  He'd established a reputation during this period fo

Joseph Conrad's life is marked by the kind of outsize exploits that would be subject to skepticism were they claimed by anyone other than Joseph Conrad; so, too, does it only seem an ability unique to Conrad that the outré travails of his world's pedestrianly extravagant inhabitants appear