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Nina Kiriki Hoffman's short story "Trophy Wives", which was published by DAW Books in the anthology Fellowship Fantastic, is up for a Nebula Award in the "Short Story" category. Now, you can read the entire, award-worthy story here.

About Nina Kiriki Hoffman

Over the past twenty-four years, Nina Kiriki Hoffman has sold novels, juvenile and media tie-in books, short story collections, and more than two hundred short stories. Her works have been finalists for the Nebula, World Fantasy, Mythopoeic, Sturgeon, and Endeavour awards. Her first novel, The Thread That Binds the Bones, won a Stoker Award. Nina's YA novel Spirits that Walk in Shadow and her science fiction novel Catalyst were published in 2006. Her fantasy novel Fall of Light will be published by Ace Books in May.

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Penguin Continues the Week-Long Ode to Ireland

By the end of the 19th century, British occupation led to increased social unrest and a rising support for the fight for political autonomy. An invigorated nationalism and a renewed interest in the Gaelic literary heritage of Ireland prompted an Irish Literary Renaissance. With Dublin at the center of this revival, poet and dramatist William Butler Yeats established the Abbey Theater with another Irish playwright, Lady Augusta Gregory. Social and moral issues dominated the stage at the Abbey in the plays of AE (a/k/a George Russell), Sean O'Casey, and J. M. Synge whose work The Playboy of the Western World incited riots.

At the helm of the Abbey Theater Yeats wrote more than 30 plays, but he is best remembered as a visionary poetic alchemist of the highest order. A literary descendant of William Blake, and spiritually connected with the mythology of Ireland, Yeats' poems were unexampled in the 20th century for their technical brilliance and rarefied beauty, and are now recognized as some of the finest poetry ever written in the English language.

The stages of London in the late 19th century were riven with the bullets of Oscar Wilde's deadly wit whenever his drawing room comedies were performed. But Wilde, while in self-imposed exile in Paris, turned to the French language and Levantine exoticism for the setting of his last play, Salome.