A literary reader with a bent towards the sub-genre of noir. Blue Christmas: Holiday Stories for the Rest of Us, is an anthology of seventeen holiday short stories by acclaimed fiction writers. Authors included in anthology: Diana Abu-Jaber, Preston Allen, Steve Almond, Lynne Barrett, Tricia Bauer, Colin Channer, Jon Clinch, John Dufresne, Ed Falco, Robert Goldrick, Ben Greenman, James W. Hall, Jane Hamilton, Ann Hood, Ana Menéndez, Les Standiford