Famed especially for her short fiction-she's won the Rea Award for outstanding achievement in the genre-and the author of novels such as the Pen/Faulkner finalist A Gate at the Stairs, Moore offers her first-ever collection of prose pieces, published over the last three decades in places like the New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, and the Atlantic. She considers the art of fiction and its connection to life by reflecting on favorite authors (e.g., Alice Munro, Don DeLillo), addresses crucial issues like racial inequality and the environment, entertains us with diversions into celebrity marriage and television, and more.