Lydia Davis is a consummate translator and one of the foremost contemporary short and short-short story writers; her influence within the short-short story medium seems immeasurable, as nearly every literary magazine pumps out 250-word story after 250-word story, each attempting – but few, if any,

Anxiety, Architectural, Citational, Clever, Experimental, Pioneering, Playful, Witty

A MacArthur-certified genius, George Saunders explores, through his fiction and non-fiction, the commonplace perversities, absurdities, and disarmingly naïve sweetness that undergirds much of American society. He is one of the few contemporary writers who has gained distinction both for the acuity

Absurd, Cartoonish, Deconstructive, Funny, Pioneering, Playful, Political, Psychological

A graduate of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Adrienne Rhinehart began her career as an animation artist specializing in animation assisting, cleanup, and inbetweening on traditionally hand-drawn projects. She cut her teeth in the industry working on several well-known television series i

Cartoonish, Death, Fantastic, Grotesque, Kitsch, Playful, Pop, Quirky

Henry Franklin Winkler was born on October 30, 1945 in Manhattan, New York. His parents, Harry Irving and Ilse Anna Maria Winkler, were Jewish immigrants who survived the German Holocaust, moving to the US in 1939. His dad was the president of an international lumber company while his mother worked a

Bright, Funny, Layered, Playful