In a classic Deborah Eisenberg short story, “Holy Week,” a travel writer visiting an unnamed country in Central America complacently compiles adjectives as he reviews a restaurant: “relaxed,” ...

The amazing Deborah Eisenberg has written some of the most astute and funny stories about American city life. Today, she reveals the motives behind her most-recent, most-powerful collection. She ...

More than eight years have passed since Deborah Eisenberg’s superb previous collection All Around Atlantis (1997), which she bookended with tales of a daughter struggling to assimilate her mother’s ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Deborah Eisenberg, whose short stories have been widely praised for their concentrated language and striking insights, has received a lifetime achievement award. Eisenberg is this year ...

There is no philosopher Ernst Friedlander—he is a creation of Deborah Eisenberg, the fiction writer. But his theory of language works strikingly as a blueprint for the way Eisenberg, in five short ...

Deborah Eisenberg is the author of three short story collections, including Transactions in a Foreign Currency, Under the 82nd Airborne and All Around Atlantis. (Courtesy of the author) ...

There comes a time for many startup companies where they either realize they need to do a nationwide roll-out, or they need to actively target buyers in the middle of… ...

Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) The amazing Deborah Eisenberg has written some of the most astute and funny stories about American city life. Today, she reveals the ...