Pamela Erens' new novel, Eleven Hours, is what traditionally would be called a "small story." It's less than 200 pages, features only two main characters and focuses primarily on events that take ...

In Middlemarch and the Imperfect Life (Ig, Apr.), novelist Erens takes a moving look at the enduring power of George Eliot’s novel. How did you end up writing about Middlemarch? I was talking to the ...

It's been out for a couple of weeks, and John Irving so novel is a fine choice for Labor Day weekend. "The Virgins" is set in a fictional version of (Erens and Irving are alums, as is John Knowles, ...

A 40-year-old New Yorker bound to his solitude and his habits finds he has lost the ability to connect with others in former Glamour editor Erens's hauntingly abject first novel. After years of ...

We are introduced to Bruce Bennett-Jones, the narrator of Pamela Erens’s stunning second novel The Virgins, as he first meets Aviva Rossner, a new student at Auburn Academy, the elite East Coast ...