Memoirs by athletes lure readers in by promising to follow the storyline through training and emergence, heyday, downfall, and ultimate redemption.

“Dream. And let dreaming be a portal to the unknown.” ~D.A. Powell

I know it’s good to be crazy busy in this economy, particularly when a bit of all the crazy business is for actual cash money.

The New Yorker rejected the short story about Pearlie twice before Andrew Sean Greer shelved it. He wrote The Confessions of Max Tivoli before blowing the dust off Pearlie again.

A mirror, an apple core, a termite Queen, a snowman, a blind cat, a hand, and a growth on Aunt Mary share protagonist positions in his unusual collection, Unlucky Lucky Days.