This wonderfully bizarre new collection of stories by Joyce Carol Oates re-imagines the final days of five major American writers.

Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Henry James and Ernest Hemingway—award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates evokes each of theses literary giants in her latest work of fiction, powerfully and audaciously reinventing the last days of their lives. In subtly nuanced language suggestive of each of these writers, Oates has created an original and haunting work of the imagination, revealing these enigmatic literary legends in a controversial new light.