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.
Mara Altman is the author of the best-selling Kindle Singles Sparkle and Bearded Lady. Her journalism has appeared in the Village Voice, the New York Times and New York Magazine. Altman's new Single, That's What She Said, recounts her wild experience of becoming a standup comedian.
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.
From the New York Times best selling fantasy novelist comes an epic journey by Panamon Creel into untamed territory to capture a precious artifact--the sacred Black Irix--and return it to its rightful owners.
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.
The inspiring story of a two-decade long friendship between a journalist and a young drug dealer in prison for killing a 16-year-old boy on the streets of Oakland.
A New York Times reporter examines growing evidence that painkillers--along with causing an epidemic of abuse--are often ineffective in treating long-term pain, and may cause more harm than good.
A century ago, riots greeted the first Paris performance of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. Vanity Fair's culture columnist unpacks the meaning of that historic night.
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.
A provocative argument that Iran is not the nuclear threat the West believes -- and should be treated as a legitimate power, not as the pariah of the Middle East.
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.