By: Rachel Axler

Q: I wonder what his favorite band is. A: YES

By: P.G. Wodehouse

‘Here,’ you said to yourself, ‘is an efficient young man in spectacles.’

By: Nicholson Baker

Everything had a temperature in those days.

By: Chris Adrian

My brother and I could not agree on how to worship the mouse.

By: Matt Brown

Like the cloudberries of Sweden or truffles, Crumpters couldn’t be mass-produced.

By: Kurt Andersen

“But don’t you ever do what I once caught Jimmy doing, OK?”

By: Doug Dorst

On frigid and moonless winter nights, effigies of St. Vralkomir may come to life and begin dancing…

By: Dean Haspiel

“We rolled around and smashed into something so hard it cracked.”

By: Ben Greenman

“Enormous in its diminutive size, menacing in its cheer.”

By: Joshua Glenn

From UBIK and THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS to YELLOW BACK RADIO BROKE-DOWN

By: Joshua Glenn

From THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL and THE COLOUR OF MAGIC to RONIN.

By: Joshua Glenn

From CHINAMAN’S CHANCE and THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE to UP THE WALLS OF THE WORLD

By: Joshua Glenn

From THE PRINCESS BRIDE to THE GODWULF MANUSCRIPT

By: Joshua Glenn

From A WRINKLE IN TIME and V. to THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD

By: Joshua Glenn

From OUR MAN IN HAVANA to TINTIN IN TIBET