Randy Cohen

Randy Cohen is a writer and humorist best known as the author of New York Times column The Ethicist from 1999 to 2011. He is currently the host of the radio show Person Place Thing.

Cockerspaniel of the Jews

by Randy Cohen

A columnist accidentally offends his core audience. 

Marvin Gelfand

Marvin Gelfand (d. 2011) was born in Brooklyn and for many years lectured, consulted and led walking tours about the city of New York.

Anger

by Marvin Gelfand

One man's love brings out the worst in his family.

Sloth

by Todd Hanson

A slacker details his relationship with depression… and couches.

Jack Hitt

Jack Hitt is an award-winning journalist and regular contributor to the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, and This American Life.

Slumlord

by Jack Hitt

Jack fights a crazy super that insists he's an undercover spy.

Michael Rips

Michael Rips is a criminal lawyer and author, best known for the books The Face of the Naked Lady: An Omaha Family Mystery and Pasquale's Nose: Idle Days in an Italian Town.

Lost in Translation

by Michael Rips

A high school student attempts to pass an Ionesco play off as his own.

Barry Gibbs

Barry Gibbs was falsely accused of murder, and in 2006, after 19 years in prison, was exonerated with the help of The Innocence Project. In 2010, New York City gave him the largest personal settlement in its history, $9.9 million. Louis Epolito, the detective who framed Barry Gibbs in order to protect the Mafia, is currently serving life in prison.

Exonerated

by Barry Gibbs

Framed by a corrupt cop, a man spends 19 unjust years in prison.

Walk Like A Cop, Talk Like A Cop

by Steve Osborne

A visit to Washington Square Park makes a New York City police officer realize that there's never a time when he isn't walking and talking like a cop.

Liz Tuccillo

Liz Tuccillo is an American writer best known for her work on the HBO comedy series Sex and the City and coauthoring the book He's Just Not That Into You. Her first novel, How To Be Single, was published in 2008.

Unpopular In Jail

by Liz Tuccillo

A woman joins a movement but finds herself alone.

The Apron Strings of Savannah

by Edgar Oliver

The genesis story of a true bohemian: two children, one spectacularly eccentric mother and Savannah, Georgia.

One Last Family Photo

by James Braly

Estranged for 20 years, a man's family is brought together by his sister's last wishes.

Eric Konigsberg

Eric Konigsberg is the author of Blood Relation and has written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The New York Times Magazine. He lives in Westchester, New York, with his wife and children.

Crying Uncle

by Eric Konigsberg

A young journalist's magazine assignment leads him to an uncle and the mob.

Joyce Maynard

Joyce Maynard is the author of eight previous novels, including To Die For, Labor Day, The Good Daughters, and four books of nonfiction. Her bestselling memoir, At Home in the World, has been translated into sixteen languages. Count the Ways, Joyce’s tenth novel, will be released on June 2, 2021. She lives in California.

Love is the Best Art of All

by Joyce Maynard

A woman discovers that even the most elaborate holidays can't protect her children from the pain of growing up.