Massachusetts writer Jim Shepard might be described as something of a writer's writer in the way that, say, British musician Richard Thompson is something of a guitarist's guitarist. Shepard is the ...

This engrossing novel gives the overworked subject of Columbine-style school massacres an unusually subtle and affecting treatment. Shepard (Nosferatu ; Battling Against Castro ; etc.) follows the ...

This cover image released by Knopf shows "Phase Six" by Jim Shepard. (Knopf via AP) “Phase Six,” by Jim Shepard (Alfred A. Knopf) After more than a year of living with the devastation of the ...

Jim Shepard's latest novel is "Phase Six." (Barry Goldstein) It is only by a catastrophic coincidence that “Phase Six,” Jim Shepard’s stellar new novel set in a terrible near future, feels so timely.

It’s not that Jim Shepard isn’t known, exactly; it’s that he isn’t known enough. Although his 2007 collection of short fiction, “Like You’d Understand, Anyway,” was a finalist for the National Book ...

It is only by a catastrophic coincidence that “Phase Six,” Jim Shepard’s stellar new novel set in a terrible near future, feels so timely. Shepard has created a fictional pandemic that sends waves of ...

After more than a year of living with the devastation of the coronavirus, you might think you’re not ready for a fictional pandemic — but you’d be wrong. Jim Shepard’s new novel, “Phase Six,” is a ...

COLUMBIA, Tenn. - James “Jim” Shepard, age 52, formerly of Brainerd, passed away April 10, 2014, at Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville, Tenn., with family by his side. Jim was born on May 23, 1961, in ...

After more than a year of living with the devastation of the coronavirus, you might think you're not ready for a fictional pandemic — but you'd be wrong. Jim Shepard's new novel, “Phase Six,” is a ...