Aimee Bender is no longer the whiz kid of the American short story. The Color Master is her fifth work of fiction, and along with the idiosyncratic George Saunders she now stands as one of the ...

We gathered in a circle in the side room and talked about mirrors, and still water, and wells, and feeling understood, and opals, and then we did a creative-writing exercise about our first memory of ...

In Leonora Carrington’s 1938 short-story masterpiece “The Debutante,” a young woman wants to disobey her mother’s orders to go to a debutante ball, so she asks a hyena she has befriended to go in her ...

Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, shows her versatility as an author in a collection of stories that range from fairy tales to quasi-erotica. "Appleless" starts us out with ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Aimee Bender’s stories lean to the surreal. Her subjects, often inhabiting surroundings drawn from the fantastic, are porous: They absorb their environment ...