Cary Goldstein, publisher and editor-in-chief of Twelve, acquired Amity Gaige’s novel Schroder at auction from Gaige’s agent, Wendy Weil, in 2011. The novel is the intricate epistolary story of a ...

Erik Schroder, the narrator of Amity Gaige's brilliantly written, page-turning third novel, escaped East Germany when he was five, "holding nothing but my father's hand." His mother stayed behind the ...

The risk with basing any novel on a true story is that — as the saying goes — truth is so frequently stranger than fiction. Choosing to novelize the curious tale of Christian Gerhartsreiter, the ...

We need a name for them, that subset of literary protagonists who are appealing despite being appalling. I do not mean the mere anti-hero. In literature as in life, anti-heroes outnumber outright ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... FICTION: MEA CULPA Schroder by Amity Gaige (Twelve) It’s a fine line, sometimes, between disturbing and enrapturing. Amity Gaige’s new novel, “Schroder,” ...

A father embroiled in a bitter custody battle abducts his 6-year-old daughter and heads off with her through upstate New York and Vermont. His name is Eric Kennedy and he's the desperate, complicated ...

Award-winning author Amity Gaige will give a reading at Westminster School Feb. 13 as a part of the school’s Friday Nights in Gund, a series of readings, lectures and concerts held at Westminster ...

In Amity Gaige’s “Heartwood,” Lieutenant Beverly Miller oversees a search for Valerie Gillis, a 42-year-old Appalachian Trail hiker who fails to appear at a planned meeting with her husband in July ...

Sign up for City Lights, our twice-weekly guide to arts and nightlife in the D.C. area. It lands in your inbox every Sunday and Thursday. Amity Gaige’s third novel ...

We like to believe we are the authors of our own lives, but so much of who we are is decided for us in advance. The things that color people’s perceptions of our identity — who our parents are, where ...