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Author, Aaron James, begs to differ with Jean-Paul Sartre, who once declared waterskiing to be “the ideal limit of aquatic sports.” Penguin Random Housepenguinrandomhouse.com Shelf Unbound: Sartre famously said...

Winner of the 2018 Shelf Unbound Competition for Best Independently Published Book Shelf Unbound: You’ve lived in Tokyo for two decades—what interested you about Tokyo as the setting for The...

Finalist of the 2018 Shelf Unbound Competition for Best Independently Published Book Shelf Unbound: Tell us about your book. Batya Casper: Israela is a novel about Israel: its history and...

Finalist of the 2018 Shelf Unbound Competition for Best Independently Published Book Shelf Unbound: Tell us about your book.  Chad Gordon: In my observation, most people share a central fear:...

Finalist of the 2018 Shelf Unbound Competition for Best Independently Published Book Shelf Unbound: Tell us about your book. Kathleen Wakefield: I began writing In the Foam of the Blue...

Finalist of the 2018 Shelf Unbound Competition for Best Independently Published Book Shelf Unbound: Tell us about your book.  Michael Stanley: Dying to Live is a story about what would...

Finalist of the 2018 Shelf Unbound Competition for Best Independently Published Book Shelf Unbound: Tell us about your book.  Carole P. Roman: I wrote Rocket-Bye as a ‘love letter’...

The first publication from Lena Dunham’s Random House imprint Lenny, Sour Heart is a brilliant, moving portrayal of the struggles of Chinese girls coming of age in America.  Lenny...

Quirky, inventive characters populate John Brandon’s first short story collection, from a down-on-his-luck former high school football star to a little league player obsessed with entrepreneurship. Each of the...