Erik Pedersen

Emily Ogden answers questions about her new book 'Darkness Becomes Bright: On the Brief Life and Immortal Art of Edgar Allan Poe.'

A 2026 Guggenheim Fellow, essayist, and scholar Emily Ogden is the author of the essay collections “On Not Knowing” and the just-published “Darkness

The National Book Award-winning historian discusses "The Rush," a look at the wild, dangerous days of gold fever.

“The Rush” is a look at the wild, dangerous days of gold fever.

Somewhere, someone is already asking: Wait a minute, do audiobooks even count as reading? So let's get that out of the way. Yes, they do.

Deesha Philyaw’s debut short story collection, “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies,” was rejected by major publishing houses before being picked up by West Virginia University Press. The book would

Deesha Philyaw's debut short story collection, “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies,” was rejected by major publishing houses before being picked up by West Virginia University Press.

Deesha Philyaw's debut short story collection, “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies,” was rejected by major publishing houses before being picked up by West Virginia University Press. The book would go on to win the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Story Prize, an LA Times Book Prize for first fiction, and it was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction.

Deesha Philyaw's debut short story collection, “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies,” was rejected by major publishing houses before being picked up by West Virginia University Press.

Novelist Tod Goldberg, who published his Gangsterland series for the imprint, called the news 'heartbreaking and devastating.'