Letters of Recommendation

  • When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut

  • There Are Distances Between Us by Roxane Gay

  • Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill

  • The Late, Great Stephen Colbert by Joel Lovell

  • Men by Lydia Davis

  • Slatland by Rebecca Lee

  • One Long River by Brian Doyle

  • Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson

  • 99 Stories of God by Joy Williams

  • The Collected Stories of Amy Hempl

  • Flophouse by Stacy Abramson & David Isay

  • Actual Air by David Berman

  • Can You Say Hero? by Tom Junod

  • The Comedian’s Comedian’s Comedian by Amy Wallace

  • Secrets of the Magus by Mark Singer

  • Shapinsky’s Karma by Lawrence Weschler

  • The Gnome Suit by Chuck Klosterman

  • Mountains of Pi by Richard Preston

  • Sticks by George Saunders

  • My Mom and the Carpet Foam by Susan Henderson

  • Lightning Man by David Means

  • Hardy in the Evening by Tony Earley

  • Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut

  • The Beekeeper Joke