ANNOUNCEMENTS & NEWS
The Private Life of Skin
“The Private Life of Skin,” originally published in Southwest Review
This is Your Last Swim
Read Hester’s Story “This is Your Last Swim.”
National Endowment for the Arts
Hester Kaplan Receives National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship.
The Pain Form
Read Hester’s new story, “The Pain Form” in The Idaho Review”
Providence Noir
Find Hester’s story “Femur” in Providence Noir
Beautiful Flesh: A Body of Essays
Find Hester’s essay “The Private Life of Skin” in Beautiful Flesh: A Body of Essays
STAR TRIBUNE BOOK REVIEW: “The Tell,” by Hester Kaplan
An aging but charismatic actor moves in next door to a couple whose marriage is already in trouble.
Hester Kaplan’s novel “The Tell” occupies that peculiar literary middle earth where everything is about relationships enacted against a history that has shaped the characters to respond in significant ways to problems put in their paths.
Stephanie Vandrick Reads: “Unravished”
Because I was both shaken by and drawn into the worlds of the two books by Hester Kaplan that I read earlier, I was happy to hear of and read her new book, “Unravished: Stories” (Ig, 2014).
THE BROOKLYN PAPER: Background stories
Background stories: F’Greene-published short story collection digs up the past
Regrets? They’ve had a few — and it makes for great reading!
LIBRARY JOURNAL: Top Indie Fiction
Author of two novels and winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, Kaplan delivers an exceptional collection with beautifully rendered stories for and about grown-ups.