Email Author Elizabeth Hand

2007 Stories by Elizabeth Hand

• Color Me Impressed

  published November 27, 2007

  The most recent dire pronouncements of the Death of the Reader have no doubt sent literate survivors scurrying to their book groups, readers'... More >>

• Smother Mother

  published October 9, 2007

  Sociopaths tend to be charismatic. Alice Sebold's new novel, The Almost Moon, suffers from a fatal flaw: Its unbalanced narrator, Helen, is... More >>

• The Ghost Writer

  published August 21, 2007

  One for Sorrow, Christopher Barzak's lovely, melancholy, offbeat first novel, affectingly captures the emotional centrifuge that is... More >>

• Burning Down the House

  published August 14, 2007

  As a title, An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England has a lot to live up to. Happily, Brock Clarke's hilarious new novel makes... More >>

• Summer Shorts

  published June 19, 2007

  Short is big, at least as far as summer fiction goes. New collections from the likes of Rick Moody or Miranda July can make the jitney trip pass... More >>

• The Chicken Voyeur

  published May 22, 2007

  In the 1960s and '70s, the Romanian writer Dumitru Tsepeneag was at the center of Bucharest's group of oneiric poets and writers, whose... More >>

• Raw God, Tiny Nun

  published April 17, 2007

  Spiritual memoirs have legs, particularly the work of Christian apologists who had the foresight to sin early and often. Witness St. Augustine's... More >>