Eric Timar: 2 books

Short stories from the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. A fish soup love potion; a theft of gold from an old man’s mouth; a rum-powered boat launching; revolutionary washing machines; a dreadlocked baseball prodigy; more. Nine interconnected stories; 142 pages.

A young editor, thrilled to have secured his dream job with a prestigious small publisher in New York, watches in horror as the firm abandons its standards and begins printing all the lurid novels it can find. The publisher’s new books offer Huckleberry Finn re-imagined as a slave trader, Hester...