The Open Road Blog

“The short story is where some of the finest creative juices are flowing, and Peter Cameron is one of the form’s finest practitioners.” —People

Open Road Integrated Media announces the ebook publication of four titles by acclaimed author Peter Cameron, praised for his “rare ability to take an ordinary event and invest it with heart and significance” by the Los Angeles Times. Cameron’s first collection of short stories, One Way or Another, is joined in ebook release by Far-Flung, The Half You Don’t Know, and Leap Year. 

One Way or Another was awarded ...

Celebrate in good company with: a pig who will make you laugh; Irish mobsters who gave Hell’s Kitchen its name; and a beautiful woman who is absolutely mad.

Our St. Patrick’s Day ebooks collection features everything from Irish landscapes to Irish mobs. You will find excerpts from Joseph Caldwell’s The Pig Did It, Josephine Hart’s Damage, Ken Bruen’s Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice, T. J. English’s The Westies, and Thomas Kelly’s The Rackets.

If you can’t get enough of Caldwell and the pig, watch New York Times bestselling author Malachy McCourt talk about Caldwell’s ...

This week’s archival photo presents novelist, poet, and screenwriter Susan Minot at work on rewrites for Lust & Other Stories, which would be published in 1989. With pen and typewriter at hand, she leads her collection to completion in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood.

In 1981, Minot began her literary career as an editorial assistant at the New York Review of Books. She published Monkeys, her award-winning first novel, that same year. She later ventured to France and Italy, where she continued to write. After returning to New York to publish Folly, she decided to write ...

Via Boing Boing, I found and enjoyed General Electric's Instagram feed. It's a visual guide of artistic photos inside their technology, research and history.—Lauren

These are some of the cutest images I've seen in a long time. Check out photos from the National Spelling Bee ("the nation's largest and longest-running educational promotion") over on The Atlantic today. Also, learn the definition of C-Y-M-O-T-R-I-C-H-O-U-S.—Laura

The New York Public Library has gone the extra mile with their new app (to be an ongoing series) released on Tuesday, May 31. The first "issue" of their iPad app, NYPL Biblion, focuses on the ...

May has been designated both Jewish American Month and Latino Book Month. What better way to celebrate than with a new video featuring Open Road author Rafael Yglesias, who happens to be a product of both cultures? "Both my Cuban and Jewish heritages are equally significant to me," explains Yglesias. Watch the well-known author of Fearless speak about his experience growing up in a half-Jewish, half-Latino family—"I tend to see many more similarities in those cultures than they see in each other"—and learn which family member Yglesias considers the most classic "Jewish mother" he ever met—it may surprise you! ...