How do we love the version of ourselves without the person that shaped it?Set in the aftermath of loss, Paper-Soft follows Christopher Kinsley, a young man navigating grief after the death of his girlfriend, Stephanie. Unable to face his sorrow, Chris buries himself in academics and work. But illusions don’t last forever. Three years later, the heavy red curtains of his busy life begin to fall one by one, leaving him bare — with nothing left but her memory and unco...

A short story about a man who has many girlfriends and children without marriage and not taking care of them, but in the end, he wants to see all his children before he die.

Every spell has a price...and a consequence.Across centuries and countless corners of the world, witches have cursed their enemies, bargained with things they should never have summoned, protected, and discovered that magic rarely behaves the way they expect.Join us for 23 tales steeped in superstition and nightmares.So light the candle. Draw the circle.And be very, very careful what you wish for.Including stories a...

“I do not know of any one in the United States who writes better prose.” —W. H. AudenA practical, culinary, and philosophical guide on how to eke out joy and delight in difficult times.There is perhaps no other book that speaks so powerfully to hunger and its pangs and to the ingenuity of those who seek to cook their way out of its snapping jaws. Originally written in the depths of World War II and then revised in the shadow of the Cold War...

An Alphabet for GourmetsA playful, thoughtful, and delicious A to Z of M.F.K. Fisher’s food writing.In An Alphabet for Gourmets, M.F.K. Fisher creates a wide-ranging, whimsical, and profound miscellany of food that moves readers from A (for dining alone) to Z (zakuski, the classic accompaniments to a shot of Russian vodka), traversing a broad swath of human history, taste, and sensation along the way. Fisher’s mercurial, searching prose an...

The sentimental and culinary education of M.F.K. Fisher.In 1929, a newly married M.F.K. Fisher embarked on a journey that would change her life. In The Gastronomical Me, readers get a firsthand look at the travels that formed the culinary education of one of our greatest modern food writers. As the twenty-one-year-old Fisher and her husband made their way through France—and then much farther afield—a whole new world of flavors and experiences open...

A deep dive into the culinary, literary, and underwater lives of that most noble and inscrutable bivalve, the oyster.In Consider the Oyster, M.F.K. Fisher explores the many lives of the mysterious oyster—from its strange cloistered existence in the watery depths to the many roles it has played in our culinary history as table fare both humble and refined. In this canonical study of one of the ocean’s most intriguing inhabitants, Fisher combines folklore, f...

A witty, idiosyncratic guided tour through culinaria past and present by the inimitable M.F.K. Fisher.In Serve It Forth, her first book, M.F.K. Fisher is already in full bloom. She travels the byways and tables of history with her unique literary vision, laying bare the peculiarities, profundities, and absurdities of the eating (and thinking) life. She makes an equal feast of the sybaritic Roman diet and its decadent excesses as she does of the slow progre...

Tatiana M.F. Cruz is Hazel Dick Leonard Endowed Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Race, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at Simmons University.

A charming mixed bag of nostrums, elixirs, restoratives, and fortifiers, interspersed with autobiographical anecdotes from M.F.K. Fisher’s life in California, Provence, Mexico, and Switzerland.This compelling miscellany of folk cures, elixirs, and traditional curatives gains in intrigue from the strange and captivating telling of M.F.K. Fisher, for whom directness and lack of ornament never meant the same as simplicity. In this collection of panaceas, superstitions...

A bewildered American mother and her two daughters spend an adventurous year in Aix-en-Provence, where an aloof mutt presides at the family’s favorite cafés.An essential treat for lovers of the work of M.F.K. Fisher, The Boss Dog is a fictionalized memoir of the author’s time in the south of France. It follows a young American woman and her two daughters as they embark on a new life in Aix-en-Provence. We encounter the food, moods, landscapes, and people o...

PREAMBLEHumanity has always searched for meaning, truth, and power. Across generations, people have looked to traditions, systems, teachers, and beliefs for guidance. Yet one of the greatest discoveries may begin much closer than expected: within human nature itself.This book explores the idea that every human being functions through three dimensions: Spirit, Soul, and Body. When understood and aligned, these dimensions can lead to clarity, balance, purpose, and self-mastery...