A Hemingway scholar is convinced by a conman to forge a Hemingway story in order to get millions of dollars in a plot that may disrupt the omniverse, even as the famed author steps in to intervene.

An unassuming attendee of Gertrude Stein’s famed Paris salon reflects on his time as a writer. Twenty years after Stein’s passing, he realizes the profound truths of her life, art, and legacy.

A writer summers with his mistress and part of her family. The group runs into one of his former students, and they all smoke together.

A teacher on the Lower East side meets a friendly man with a presence resembling a dead English poet.

An American writer travels to Sophia where he meets a famous poetess. He falls in love with her and her attitude.

Writing a foreword, a man reflects on his relationship to a writer and said writer's wife.

Upon returning to Paris after a decade-long hiatus wandering the French countryside and writing an epic, a poet encounters an enigmatic young woman who believes he is a god and wants to be his disciple,

A man recalls his intimate friendship with his former English professor, who resolved to fuel his unsatisfied desire for playwriting during the time they were apart. In their reunion decades later, instead of the brilliant play he promised, the professor shows his former student a disturbing product of his mental instability.

An overweight journalist navigates a strange friendship with a legendary writer and finds his life curiously entwined with one of the writer's students, a fiery young girl.

A writer dying of gangrene in the African savannah reflects on his past experiences and the stories he will never write as he converses with his wife.