The men in Wifeshopping have ideas about what they want in a soul mate, or what they think they should want. They may even have fiancees or girlfriends. But in Steven Wingate's thirteen short stories, the relationships-whether real or imagined-face what Amy Hempel describes in her foreword as "The Flaw, the excuse to back out, to tear down the picture of a life together."

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With the release of The Dark Knight in movie theaters this past weekend came the trailer for the forthcoming movie version of Watchmen, the critically acclaimed graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. The well-done and well-placed two minute Watchmen trailer shot Watchmen up to the top of Amazon.com's Bestseller list - to the #2 slot as of this writing.

Read more about how Watchmen opened doors for the graphic novel in the literary world in
"Watchmen and the Birth of Respect for the Graphic Novel."