Jamie Quatro made a splash with her 2013 debut, “I Want to Show You More,” a collection of stories intensely focused on two major threats to family: adultery and mortality. At once boldly carnal, ...

“Before the blast, they say there’d been sermons about fire, about the end of the world. The fire itself gave the last sermon; after that there were no more.” In a post-apocalyptic world, after the ...

Jamie Quatro begins her debut novel by positioning the consummation of an affair against the commencement of a marriage. The first pages show Maggie, a short-story writer, and James, a poet, en route ...

EXCLUSIVE: In a pre-holiday week Friday night deal, DreamWorks is pre-emptively acquiring The Fire Sermon by Francesca Haig, a poet and short story writer. It is the first of a trilogy, and Carla ...

FIRE SERMON. By Jamie Quatro. Grove Press. 205 pages. $24. In her slim, beautifully combustible first novel, “Fire Sermon,” Jamie Quatro treats the mysteries and complexities of love, marriage, faith ...

After millennia joined at the hip, art and faith largely parted ways, at least in terms of art as the aesthetic expression of religion. What dialogue the two have had over the past century or so has ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. “I imagine writing this all down and giving the manuscript to my agent,” writes Maggie, the narrator of Jamie ...

Buddha described in the Fire Sermons that every aspect of life experiences are known as "burning," explaining that it applies to "pleasant and unpleasant phenomena alike." It's evident that Quatro ...