Michael Finkel

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002

Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and

True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa

In the haunting tradition of Joe McGinniss's Fatal Vision and Mikal Gilmore's Shot in the Heart, True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa weaves a spellbinding tale of murder, love, and deceit with a deeply personal inquiry into the slippery nature of truth.

Here Be Monsters... 50 Days Adrift At Sea (Kindle Single)

Late one October night in 2010, three teenage boys from the tiny Pacific island of Atafu broke their culture's cardinal rule: they set out for the open sea without a master fisherman. Drunk on vodka and hungry for adventure, they gathered last-minute prov