For over four decades, Joyce Carol Oates has produced an enormous body of work consisting of novels, short stories, criticism, plays, and poetry. Not a year has gone by since the mid-1960’s in which she has not published at least one book. Among her myriad distinctions, she has received the National Book Award for Fiction, for them, the Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award for horror fiction, and the National Book Award for Blonde in 2001. Her latest book, High Lonesome, is a collection of stories spanning four decades of writing.

Influenced by American authors like Raymond Carver and Kurt Vonnegut, Etgar Keret has been called “Israel’s hippest best-selling author today.” He writes television scripts, screenplays, graphic novels, and a newspaper column in addition to his critically-acclaimed short stories. His previous books include the collection The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God & Other Stories, set in landscapes ranging from “this armpit town outside Austin, Texas” to “this village in Uzbekistan that was built right smack at the mouth of Hell,” and a children’s picture book, Dad Runs Away with the Circus. The Nimrod Flipoutis a new collection of “bite-sized satiric tales,” both serious and hilarious.