Amy Bloom, award-winning novelist and short story writer, reads from her collection of linked stories, *Where the God of Love Hangs Out*. A young woman is haunted by her roommate's murder; a man and his daughter-in-law confess their sins in the unlikeliest of places; two middle-aged, married friends find themselves surprisingly drawn to each other, risking all for their love but never underestimating the cost. *Where the God of Love Hangs Out* takes us to the margins and the centers of people's emotional lives, exploring the changes that come with love and loss.
Amy Bloom is the author of two novels, two collections of short stories, and has been a nominee for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and numerous anthologies here and abroad. She has written for *The New Yorker*, *The New York Times Magazine*, *The Atlantic Monthly*, among many other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award. She lives in Connecticut and teaches at Yale University.