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

A writer grapples with the suicide of her longtime friend and mentor.

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

A man, committed to sobering up, meets with two friends in a bar. Forced to accompany them in a late-night excursion for drugs, they find themselves in a strange and surreal night filled with broken glass, loose lizards, and group therapy.

A man's lonely life focused on the pursuit of reason and music leaves him questioning what more there may be in the lives of other people and of religion.

When the devoted wife of a Yiddish writer recruits a young man to translate her husband's work in 1960's New York, the young man must contemplate his priorities and mission in life.

A Canadian graduate student and his wife are living in France and often socialize with their peers at concerts and dinner parties. They soon make friends with an established novelist, but as the student continues to meet people he begins to question who he can trust and who his real friends are.

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,

Having sacrificed his dream job to financially support his marriage, a man realizes there is sexual tension between his wife and his friend. Ultimately, he makes tough decisions about both his friendship and his marriage.