There are authors who shape-shift from book to book, trying on the occasional regional dialect with a ring to it or playing with the accoutrements of some genre, perhaps even, or especially, in order ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Everyone has likely heard of “finders keepers, losers weepers,” but that is not always true in Pennsylvania. The Keystone State ...

It's 1965. Peggy Vaillancourt likes women, but has married her professor, Lee Fleming, who is a man who likes men. So though they have something in common, their marriage is quickly unhappy. Peggy ...

Mislaid, misnamed, misconstrued — all of these terms could describe Nell Zink’s exuberant but problematic second novel, a comedy of manners and errors about sexuality, race and class in the American ...

A. It may be too late for you to reclaim these items, but you won’t know until you try. Under New Jersey law, a person who finds lost or mislaid property must make reasonable efforts to return the ...

Less than 15 pages into Mislaid, a novel by Nell Zink, our heroine, Peggy—a white girl growing up in small-town Virginia in the 1960s—has realized “she was intended to be a man,” come out to her pearl ...

“Mislaid,” indeed. The title of Nell Zink’s new novel is just the first wry, indecorous joke in this zany-brainy story about a teenage lesbian who sleeps with a gay man. Zink writes with such faux ...

Profiles of Nell Zink, of which there are many, can be as dizzying to read as her books. The one-time author of an animal-themed, post-punk fanzine, she addressed all her fiction for decades solely to ...

In Nell Zink's new book, Mislaid, a young woman marries her male professor. It's 1965. She likes women; he likes men. What follows is a biting satire about gender, race and sexuality. It's 1965. Peggy ...