Feminist Authors Present Their Short Story Collections

Short-story authors Diana Xin & Hillary Behrman present their books. In Book of Exemplary Women, Xin's debut short story collection, women across different stages of life—and death—resist erasure and make their stories known. Contending with scorned lovers, bothersome ghosts, and their own unruly desires, these women hold the world at bay while holding each other close. They reach past geographical and generational divides to find communion and conviction. Behrman’s Lake Effect takes you from unmapped mountain ridges to wild urban places, and the outskirts of a desert outpost—exploring the many ways we love, labor, and isolate ourselves. In these stories, characters are rarely headed where they want to be.