We welcome submissions to Kindle Singles. We're looking for exceptional ideas--well researched, well argued, and well illustrated--between 5,000 and 30,000 words.
Abe Streep is a senior editor with Outside magazine. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Men’s Journal, Popular Science, Mother Jones, The Southern Review, Bloomberg Businesweek, and elsewhere.
Nicole Krauss is the author of the international best-sellers Great House, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and The History of Love. Her first novel, Man Walks Into a Room was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. She was selected as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists in 2007 and by The New Yorker for its "Twenty Under Forty" list in 2010.
Kindle Singles: Journalism, Novellas, Essays, Humor, and Short Kindle eBooks
Compelling Ideas Expressed at Their Natural Length
Kindle Singles is here to offer a vast spectrum of reporting, essays, memoirs, narratives, and short stories presented to educate, entertain, excite, and inform. Our writers take you places you can't get to any other way, on journeys of fact and fiction that share these common threads: they're the highest-quality work we can find, and at a length best suited to the ideas they present.
Two young lovers invent a mutual acquaintance named Whitmore, whose mythology grows as their relationship deepens--until the fictional friend eventually wreaks havoc on their lives.
In the style of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, the true-crime saga of two young white women brutally murdered--on the day of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech--and a young black man falsely accused.
A down-on-his-luck reporter sets out on a story--and instead finds himself on a personal journey to comprehend the true meaning of war, journalism and love.
Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting, this narrative recounts a 2010 spill of one million gallons of oil in southern Michigan, resulting in the costliest environmental cleanup in U.S. history.
A gripping account of The Mayflower's voyage across the Atlantic in 1620--the persecution, politics and danger faced by its passengers as they travelled to the New World.
From the best-selling author of The Monster of Florence, an powerful indictment of the Internet haters who convicted Amanda Knox of murder--without evidence or reason.
A feminist author challenges the view that the "Mad Men" generation of men had it all--and argues that it's an illusion perpetrated by those who miss a male-dominated society.
Heartbroken over a breakup, a writer uses fourteen different dating sites to meet a man--resulting in a series of reckless encounters on the path to the perfect date.
Part Tuscan idyll and part cautionary tale, an American family's escape to Italy reveals how a life on a well-mapped trajectory can sometimes veer off course.
A leading infectious disease expert poses the terrifying question: can we anticipate and thwart the deadly threat of pandemics, or have we already created the conditions for a new, virulent strain?
RIP Roger Ebert, 1942-2013. An oral history of the fractious and complex relationship of America's most beloved movie critics--Ebert and his colleague and combatant, Gene Siskel.
Was Margaret Thatcher the greatest British leader since Churchill, or a divisive force? The renowned Harvard historian considers the Iron Lady's lasting legacy.