In 1993, Matthew Klam was sitting in his room at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where he was a fellow, when he received a call from Daniel Menaker at The New Yorker saying that they ...

In his first book, a collection entitled "Sam the Cat and Other Stories," Matthew Klam takes a hilarious look at modern love and tormented guys. In one story he writes, "I love being in love.

By Menachem Kaiser THE ALMOST LEGENDARY MORRIS SISTERS A True Story of Family Fiction By Julie Klam Your most cherished family stories are, I hate to break it to you, almost certainly at least ...

Several summers ago, I attended a reunion in Ohio to meet relatives from a close family branch I had only recently learned existed. It turned out that stories that had come down to me about my ...

For 17 years, I waited and wondered when Matthew Klam would publish another book. “Sam the Cat,” a collection of stories from 2000, had followed Klam’s selection as part of The New Yorker ...

Chain smoking, a defining characteristic of Selma, Malvina, Marcella and Ruth, the titular siblings in Julie Klam's "The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters," elicited a laugh of recognition.