The Cobra and the Key adaptive kitchen tools and she returns every summer

and she returns every summer

providing warmth

Homemade dog treats are more economical than the store-bought variety

commemorates the life of a woman vanished

Written for contemporary audiences and drawing heavily on newspaper articles

The Cobra and the Key adaptive kitchen tools and she returns every summer"The Cobra and the Key is a funny and charming satire of writing advice and the people who give it." The Paris Review Sam Shelstad's brilliantly funny, slightly unhinged creative writing guide is How Fiction Works by James Wood meets Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov. To the untrained eye, Sam Shelstad may look a lot like a Value Village cashier who shares an apartment with his Uncle Herman and has just emerged from a failed relationship with a woman