The spy novelist Robert Littell spins a yarn based on socialist revolutionary Leon Trotsky’s brief 1917 sojourn in New York City.

And a cat in Kentucky is just one digit shy of the world record. “Looking for a cat with 27 toes? Then Bindle’s your gal!” the Kentucky Humane Society in Louisville said in a Jan. 30 Facebook post.

The Assistant Professor of English sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss "The Book of Margery Kempe," coffee shops AUs, and the gender politics of fanfiction.